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One of the beauties of using music to teach economics is the depth of the ideas that can be explored. EBay is about the exchange process and the song nicely shows how trade creates value. This gives the instructor a chance to to explore consumer and producer surplus and more broadly social welfare concerns. This song also highlights a different aspect of exchange, transaction costs and how eBay lowers those costs for all parties -- thereby improving efficiency. At the same time, since the song discusses PayPal and online customer satisfaction ratings this opens the door for a fruitful discussion of risk aversion. In sum, the song does a wonderful job of communicating -- in a very funny way -- the positive-sum nature of market transactions.

The song can be accessed here:   Criticalcommons.org - Media

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