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Teaching Price Discrimination: Some Clarification

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  • Kathleen Carroll
  • Dennis Coates

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This paper describes some common pitfalls in the teaching of price discrimination. The paper then presents some clarification of these issues and makes suggestions for teaching price discrimination to students in Principles and Intermediate Microeconomics classes.

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  • Kathleen Carroll & Dennis Coates, 1999. "Teaching Price Discrimination: Some Clarification," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 66(2), pages 466-480, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:soecon:v:66:y:1999:i:2:p:466-480
    DOI: 10.1002/j.2325-8012.1999.tb00260.x
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