Category: Principles of Microeconomics

  • Economics games

    Economics-games.com

    A set of interactive games and simulations that are played in the browser. The tutor chooses a game and a number of players, then is given unique logins to distribute to learners. 14 games are played against the computer. In the other 47 games, learners play against each other.

  • Interactive Economics

    Rajiv Sethi, Homa Zarghamee, and others, Barnard College, New York

    Online textbook which uses interactive visualisations and quizzes. It is intended not as a replacement for existing textbooks, but as a set of complementary resources that give a different way to explore the topic. The modules are on “Measuring Inequality”, “Specialization and Trade”, “Technology and Costs”, “Intertemporal Choice”, “Measuring Output, Inflation, and Growth”, “Aggregate Production and Fiscal Policy”, and “Balance Sheets and Trading”.

  • Be the Chancellor

    Institute for Fiscal Studies and NESTA

    Interactive macro simulation of the UK economy in which the user can make dozens of alterations to taxes and public spending and see the effect on the government’s deficit.