Alex Tabarrok talks to NPR about the story he uses to motivate his 101 class at George Mason. It is a tale of the English shipping their prisoners off to Australia, with the sorry result that many of the prisoners perished during the sea voyage. Yikes. How could they have prevented this sorry fate? Oh, I just wonder.
Cowen and Tabarrok are authors of an introductory textbook that I am willing to endorse, at least on the micro side. They also blog at Marginal Revolution.