Show-Me Institute Free-Market Field Trip No. 3: Ticket Scalping

Economy |
By David Stokes and Caitlin Hartsell | Read Time 1 min

 

In this video, Show-Me Institute staff and interns illustrate a functioning market by scalping St. Louis Cardinals tickets at Busch stadium. Free-market lessons are interspersed throughout the video as the teams show how market transactions can make both parties better off. The video was filmed Aug. 4, 2010, in front of Busch Stadium.

David Stokes

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David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from...

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Contributing writer at the Show-Me Institute.

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