Teaching Resources for Economics
In these links you will find some of the useful resources that I have developed for teaching economics.
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I have a particular interest in the use of experiments and games to develop intuition in understanding, and to create 'sticky' learning.
This section began construction in 2025, and is a work in progress.
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Unit 1: Markets and Models
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Unit 2: Modified Markets
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Unit 3: International Economics
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Unit 4: Contemporary Macroeconomics
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Useful websites
Interactive games for students
Marginal Revolution University: unit plans, courses, great videos and explainers, and interactive practice games.​
Next Gen Personal Finance: a selection of online games and challenges
International Monetary Fund EconEd: interactives and explainers.
Escape from Barter Island: a fun cartoon trading interactive game.
The Fiscal Ship: fiscal policy online game.
Meme games: don't take these too seriously!
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Teaching resources
Marginal Revolution University: Unit plans, courses, great videos and explainers, and interactive practice games.​
Reserve Bank of Australia: Explainers, chart packs, digital interactives, and teacher and student workshops.
Ross Gittins: weekly articles unpacking current Australian economic issues.
Core Econ: open source textbooks (undergrad level) and visualisation tools (inflation, inequality).
EconEdLink: teaching resources and lesson plans.
Models and data
International Monetary Fund Datamapper: all the data you will need, available in downloadable spreadsheets
Interactive Economics: tools to develop models and graphs to understand economic concepts.
Econ Graphs: interactive economic models.
Visual Capitalist: excellent infographics and data visualisations
