For Whom the Bell (Curve) Tolls: A to F, Trade Your Grade Based on the Net Present Value of Friendships with Financial Incentives

We discuss a possible solution to an unintended consequence of having grades, certificates, rankings, and other diversions in the act of transferring knowledge, zooming in specifically on the topic of grading on a curve. We conduct a thought experiment, taking a chapter (and some more?) from the financial markets (where we trade pollution, etc.), to create a marketplace, where we can trade our grade, in a structure similar to the interest rate...