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A Simple Income Distribution Game

This paper describes a simple, in-class game which illustrates certain principles of income distribution. The class members earn or produce income (1) in direct proportion to the sum of their scores on a quiz. They then decide by majority vote how the total class income is to be distributed among members of the class. They use the income to purchase letter grades. The following section describes the rules of the game in detail. The second section contains several variations of the game which seem to be particularly effective. The third section describes some of the concepts the game illustrates and contains a brief discussion of distribution, efficiency, and incentive. In the fourth section I discuss the actual playing of the game. The last section contains some general comments on games and simulations. Sources of other games are included in the annotated bibliography.