Location
New York Stock Exchange
Asymptote
Asymptote is a design, architecture and research practice based
in New York, and has developed 3DTF, a virtual reality trading floor,
as well as a "web environment" for the New York Stock Exchange.
These projects are the first large scale VR environment used for
business purposes. Unfortunately, the website uses "bleeding edge"
technology and is difficult to navigate. To get to the projects
from the front page, you must first go through their "digital environment"
subpage.
Theory
Al
Roth’s Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
Al Roth is George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration
in the Department of
Economics at Harvard University
and Harvard Business School. He
maintains an extensive collection of links on game theory generally
aimed at a college or graduate level audience. Of particular interest
is his collection of experiments
to participate in via the web or classroom.
Agent-Based
Computational Economics (ACE)
ACE brings together the disciplines of evolutionary economics, computer
science and cognitive science in order to model economies as evolving
systems of autonomous interacting agents. This website has a wealth
of information and news on this field, but is aimed for graduate
level audience.
Classroom
Classroom
Expernomics Classroom Expernomics is a newsletter dedicated
to the use of economic experiments as a teaching tool for the classroom,
published annually. The games described are generally for a college
level audience.
Ariel Rubinstein
Prof. Ariel Rubinstein of the School
of Economics, Tel Aviv University
and the Department of Economics,
Princeton University has
a very good paper entitled, Experience
from a Course in Game Theory: Pre and Post-Class Problem Sets as
a Didactic Device. He also provides an excellent set of free
user-friendly didactic tools for conducting web-based through experiments,
Games-and-Behavior.
Museums
The British Museum
The British Museum is world-renowned for its numismatic collection
(Department
of Coins and Medals), containing about a million objects from
the 7th century BC through the present. The site features an exhibit,
"Brief
Lives," on the legacy currencies of Europe - those that are
being replaced by the Euro. Beyond that, the site offers background
on the collection and research of the museum, but a limited number
of images. They do have an extensive bibliography
which would make an excellent starting point for research in numismatics.
Museum of American
Financial History
This small but well-designed museum located in Manhattan showcases
the history of Wall Street and the achievements of American businessmen
and women. Their website provides highlights of current and past
exhibits as well as choice items from their permanent collection.
You can also download financial-themed wallpaper for your computer.
Israeli
Finance Ministry, Museum of Taxes
This site has no exhibits online and merely provides information
about the museum and their publication, the Israeli
Tax Review.
Organizations
The American Monetary Institute
Despite the institutional name, the site appears to be the work
of a single individual, Stephen Zarlenga. There are a very small
number of resources available for free; most seem dedicated to debunking
an exchange theory of money.
Miscellaneous
Money: What it is, How it Works
A rather substantial collection of short essays on the nature and
history of money and various monetary institutions put together
by William F. Hummel.
Accounting
Accounting: A Virtual
History
The Association of Chartered
Accountants in the U.S. provides a brief overview of the history
of accounting from ancient
accounting through the "Method
of Venice" to modern
accounting.
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