A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down : why good content is never enough / Wayne Geerling and G. Dirk Mateer -- A classroom federal funds market experiment / Denise Hazlett -- An improved in-class bargaining demonstration / Calvin Blackwell -- Bo knows property right and futures markets : economics in Trading places / Michael R. Hammock and Art Carden -- Crony capitalism in The gilded age by Twain and Warner and its relevance for today / Michelle A. Vachris -- Including short stories in economics courses / Philip J. Ruder -- Some brief syllabus advice for the young economist / Emily Chamlee-Wright and Joshua C. Hall -- Using literature to teach the economics of the Soviet-type and centrally planned economies / Zenon X. Zygmont -- Not so Bleak house : business and entrepreneurship in Dickens / Sarah E. Skwire -- Beyond the can opener : a top ten list of economics humor / Yoram Bauman -- Can't see the tacking for the trees? : Try a Coasian solution / Scott A. Beaulier, Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and Richard J. Cebula -- Teaching the economics of income tax evasion / Richard J. Cebula and Maggie Foley -- The black market and the silver screen : economics in The third man / Michael R. Hammock and Art Carden -- Assessing the economic and financial knowledge of adults / Kenneth C. Rebeck and William B. Walstad -- Success in the economics major : is it path dependent? / Carlos J. Asarta, Roger B. Butters and Andrew Perumal -- Economic literacy and policy perceptions during the financial crisis / Paul W. Grimes, Kevin E. Rogers and WIlliam D. Bosshardt -- The effects of legalized cheating in the economics classroom / Joel M. Potter and John L. Scott -- Instructor attractiveness and institutional choice in economics : a decomposition approach / Trellis G. Green, Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and Len J. Treviño -- Do clickers enhance student performance in economics? / Joel M. Potter and John L. Scott.