Learning Without Realizing: Economics Lessons in FIFA Ultimate Team
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April 4, 2024FIFA 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 monetary system and a labor market involving scarcity, price controls, and market manipulations. Users make decisions guided by cost/benefit, market prices, relative costs, opportunity costs, and expectations, in an attempt to build winning soccer teams. As such, they are learning economics without realizing it. In this paper, readers are introduced to the game and five economic lessons are offered to show how it reinforces economic content taught in high school and introductory college classes.
by Chaney Sheehan and Melanie B. Marks
Sheehan, C., & Marks, M. (2025). Learning Without Realizing: Economics Lessons in FIFA Ultimate Team. Journal of Economics Teaching, 10(2), 139-164. DOI: 10.58311/jeconteach/115d9b81b298a833383dd8839d3a380fa92fb261
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