Using Games/Simulations
KACEY L RODGERS, NSULA
NETA 2015
Movie Nations
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Group Activity
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Group chooses a leader
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Timed steps
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Follow-up Discussion Questions
Movie Nations- Continued
The Matrix
The Purge
Organized into several major sectors
The government sets all prices and wage levels
minimizing incentives for companies.
Your leaders travel internationally sharing your
progress with the world, and encouraging trade.
Non-price rationing devices are the norm in your
economy.
Price remains a major rationing device in your
economy.
Your economy is volatile due to scarcity.
The effects of scarcity vary by income level, but
overall inequality is low.
Your employees are highly productive and
provided the opportunity to become highly
educated.
You have made the intellectual capital of your
citizens your greatest national resource. You have
3 of 4 resources: labor, capital, entrepreneurship
Consumption is much harder to predict due the use
of non-price rationing devices. The utility or disutility
of a good or bad is difficult to predict.
Employees in your country are less productive and
less educated than your neighbors.
You have 3 of 4 resources present in your economy:
land, labor, capital.
Movie Nations- Continued
In Time
Your population is highly productive and trade
oriented.
All Companies are required only to pay a base
salary or minimum wage. Regular raises are not
required.
The effects of scarcity disproportionately affect
your lower income citizens.
Your population often experiences large scale
health crisis in each generation. Therefore your
birth and death rates are in not easily predicted.
Your economy has 3 of 4 resources present in
your economy: land, capital, entrepreneurship
Star Trek
Your workers are the happiest in the world. They
enjoy regular pay raises regulated by the
government, and paid leave.
College students are paid a living stipend. In fact,
public school/childcare is available from birth.
Your economy has reached equilibrium in all major
markets.
Your country offers free healthcare and education
to all citizens starting from birth.
You have all four economic resources, and they are
utilized at optimal levels.
Steps
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Take __X__ number of minutes to get familiar with your nation.
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Consider what life would be like for you if you lived in this nation.
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Task 1 (X minutes): Congratulations! Your group has opened a
business in this nation. Write an action plan for your company.
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Task 2 (X minutes): After years of business success you have
decided to work in politics. Negotiate with another nation to obtain
your missing resource.
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Task 3 (X minutes): You’ve retired from politics but remain active in
public service. Write a speech encouraging people to move to
your nation.
Discussion Questions
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What surprised you?
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Would this have been easier to do on your own?
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Individual economy versus the greater good
F.U.D.
Did your group come up with any radical ideas?
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Conflict in a risk free environment
Discussion
Questions
Do you see the 8 categories of
the market basket in this
video?
What does the price of labor
transmit about the value of
labor? (Consider current labor
issues like minimum wage,
gender pay equity, CEO pay)
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/opinion
/sutter-lake-providence-incomeinequality/index.html?sr=fb103013unequel
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Six Square
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Chapter 4: Price in the
Roger A. Arnold
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Playground game “4
square”
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Timed relay race using the
board
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Group activity: timed, and
leader verifies answers
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Individual exercise:
attendance assignment
Price as Rationing Device
Price as a Transmitter of
information
Price Ceiling
Price Floor
Absolute Price
Relative Price
Welcome to Moneyland
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1000 adult residents have voted to replace their current tax structure
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Congratulations! You have been hired to consult on a tax structure for
Moneyland
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The citizens have demands
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Task: Create a new tax structure and show mathematically how to
achieve it.
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The packet has all the information you will need
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Follow-Up: Explain why you chose this plan.
Questions