Category: MACROECONOMICS

  • We Love Monopoly. EconQuest Is Something Else.

    We Love Monopoly. EconQuest Is Something Else.

    Monopoly made economic anxiety fun — EconQuest makes economic literacy real. Let’s start with some respect where respect is due. Monopoly figured out something most game designers spend careers chasing: it made economic anxiety fun. Buying Boardwalk feels powerful. Losing everything to a hotel on Park Place feels dramatic. The whole thing hums with emotional…

  • One eye on the map. One eye on the horizon.

    One eye on the map. One eye on the horizon.

    A teacher walked into a classroom with an idea, and that idea is about to change how economics gets taught. A few years ago, an AP Macroeconomics educator walked into a classroom with an idea. Not a textbook. Not a worksheet. An idea. He wanted his students to stop reading about the economy and start…