May 2, 2024
General education economics courses like “Survey of Economics” or “Principles of Economics” are notoriously difficult environments for fostering student engagement and retaining student interest. From the […]
May 1, 2024
Games have become ubiquitous in our lives. Sometimes we play them without even realizing it. Likewise, economics is everywhere and its matters are so pervasive that […]
April 25, 2024
Economics instructors have used various media to illustrate economic topics for their students, but one media type has been underutilized: video games. In this paper we […]
April 1, 2024
FIFA Ultimate Team, a component of the best-selling video game FIFA 23, is an economics lesson, in itself. The game mimics the real world with a […]
January 28, 2024
Data literacy is a critical component of doing economics well. This paper outlines using the podcast Inside Economics and a series of data literacy moments in […]