Pick a unit. Set interest rates, shift AD/AS and run the Fed.
Not tied to a unit. Each of these covers all six units of AP Macro.
Every multiple-choice question comes with a graph.
Practices AD-AS, fiscal policy and the multiplier, the money market, loanable funds, the Phillips curve, exchange rates, GDP and unemployment.
Drag a curve or a slider, watch the equilibrium change, then pick your answer. Claim lands on a map, take the Exam Hall at 70 seconds a question, and play a new daily graph each day.
Run the economy on a water machine. Pumps push spending in, drains take it out, and a pen records GDP every lap.
Practices The circular flow, the multiplier, fiscal policy, automatic stabilizers, money creation, monetary policy, crowding out, the Phillips curve and exchange rates.
Seven stages each add a pipe, from a closed loop to a second economy abroad. Eight puzzles follow, each with a par. Bill Phillips built the real machine out of tanks and pumps in 1949.
Scarcity, opportunity cost, and gains from trade — the foundation both AP Econ courses open with. These two games are shared with AP Micro Unit 1.
Ten rounds. Place one die each round: take the sure points, park it in Long Term to multiply later, or burn the round on Spite.
Practices Opportunity cost, sunk cost and marginal cost.
Parking a die gives up that round's points.
Five rounds.
Practices Absolute advantage, opportunity cost, comparative advantage and terms of trade.
Work out the advantages from plant data, then decide whether the proposed terms are worth signing.
Which events move the curve, which put the economy inside it, and which slide it along.
Practices The production possibilities curve: shifts, idle resources, opportunity cost and economic growth.
Play solo missions, duel a rival who sets traps, or pass one device between a Saboteur who picks the event and an Analyst who calls it.
GDP, unemployment, and inflation — how economists read the health of an economy from raw data.
Five rounds.
Practices Inflation, real vs nominal value and purchasing power.
Read the headlines, predict inflation, then split your coins across savings, bonds, stocks and loans.
Roll an economic event, then slide six dials.
Practices GDP and its parts: consumer spending, investment, government spending, exports and imports.
Most of the table are Economists. Some are Slyders, steering the board wrong on purpose. Nobody sees the answer until the round ends.
Same game, the labor market.
Practices Unemployment rate, labor force participation and the three types: frictional, structural and cyclical.
A Slyder hides easiest in the three types.
Shift the curves, run the multiplier math, and watch policy ripple through the AD/AS model.
Six rounds, 30 scenarios. Read the event, then call the shift.
Practices AD-AS shifts: does AD, SRAS or LRAS move left, right, or not at all?
Instant feedback.
Three acts, ten timed rounds.
Practices Classical self-correction in AD-AS: output gap, labor market, wages, costs and SRAS.
Walk the five-link chain, then run it: diagnose the shock, pull the lever, tune wages against the clock.
Five rounds. You are a Fed intern.
Practices Multipliers: spending, tax, money and balanced budget.
Each briefing hides a different multiplier. Pick it, compute it, call the direction.
Five rounds. You are a CBO intern.
Practices GDP deflator, cyclical unemployment and stabilization policy, ending in stagflation.
Pull the GDP and labor data, compute the deflator and cyclical unemployment, then call the stabilizers. Round 5 is the stagflation trap.
The same shift call, played against three other people.
Practices AD-AS: aggregate demand, short-run and long-run supply, price level, output and unemployment.
Plenty of unrelated events push AD the same way, so a Slyder is hard to catch.
Control the money supply, move interest rates, and try to stabilize an economy that fights back.
Eight quarters.
Practices Monetary policy: the federal funds rate, open market operations, reserve requirements and the Phillips curve.
Steer the economy without tipping it.
Four quarters.
Practices Bank balance sheets: T-accounts, reserves, loans, T-bonds and defaults.
Run First National Bank: set rates, approve loans, buy T-bonds, absorb defaults, and keep the Fed off your back.
Nine orders, plus a crisis or two.
Practices Money market graph: money supply, money demand, interest rates, reserve requirements and bond operations.
Serve each borrower the right interest rate by shifting the money supply.
Shift the curves, read the rate, and spot crowding out.
Practices The loanable funds market: demand and supply, the real interest rate and crowding out of private investment.
Play solo missions, duel a rival who sets traps, or pass one device between a Saboteur who picks the event and an Analyst who calls it.
The Fed acts and six dials have to follow.
Practices Money market: money supply, money demand, the nominal rate, bond prices, investment and AD.
Anyone who forgets that bond prices move opposite rates is confused or lying. Work out which.
The Phillips curve and its link to AD/AS: which shocks slide the economy along the SRPC, which ones move it, and what moves the LRPC.
Call the AD/AS shifts, then the Phillips curve.
Practices The Phillips curve: the SRPC, the LRPC, inflationary and recessionary gaps, and how each AD/AS shift shows up on it.
Play solo missions, duel a rival who sets traps, or pass one device between a Saboteur who picks the event and an Analyst who calls it.
Exchange rates, the FOREX market, and the mirror relationship between two currencies.
Five rounds, 27 scenarios. Each event moves two currency markets.
Practices Foreign exchange: supply and demand in the USD and CAD markets.
Predict how both currencies move at the same time. Demand for one currency is supply of the other.
Every dial pulls on the next one, so a single wrong peg sets the table arguing about which link broke.
Practices Foreign exchange: demand for dollars, supply of dollars, the exchange rate, exports, imports and net capital inflow.