Several current issues in economics are centered on scheduling and matching problems, notably including the 2012 Nobel Prize winning work. Such problems usually lie outside the scope of most undergraduate courses. We present a relatively simple problem that can be used to introduce the graph...

A noncooperative model of a normal form game is developed using tools from fuzzy set theory. The paper extends the decision theory framework of Bellman and Zadeh (1970) to a game-theoretic setting. We identify conditions for the existence of equilibrium in this setting and provide a duopoly...

This classroom experiment illustrates the efficiency-enhancing property of a Tiebout system in which local public goods decisions are determined by a political process. Students are given playing cards that induce diverse preferences for expenditures on alternative public goods and are initially...