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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTax Game
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe link between a set of taxes and income distribution is an important, but difficult, concept taught in economics principles c...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconomics and the Tragedy of the Commons
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentIn both macroeconomics and microeconomics principles courses, economists teach the virtue of markets as an allocative mechanism....Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRicardian Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentRicardian Explorer, implemented on the internet, simulates a Ricardian trade model with linear production technology and a CES u...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarketSim
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentMarketSim helps students understand the functioning of markets by having them become consumers and producers in a simulated econ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeneral Equilibrium Simulation for Microeconomics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentTeaching general equilibrium analysis to students is challenging. General equilibrium models are typically accessible to only a ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpecialization and Division of Labor
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis example engages students in a simple simulation of specialization and division of labor. All that is needed are staplers an...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFair Model
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe Fair model web site includes a freely available United States macroeconomic econometric model and a multicounty econometric ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDynamic Integrated Climate Change Model (DICE)
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe Dynamic Integrated Climate Change (DICE) model assumes a single world producer must chose levels for three simultaneously de...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBudget Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentStudents often come to a principles course in economics with knowledge that is not correct. This example asks students to guess ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOpen Outcry Market
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis example is an in-class market simulation conducted with paper cards assigning each student a buyer or seller role and a res...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconModel
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis site contains 21 modular, easy to use economic models, that are appropriate for class assignments or in-class demonstration...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0