Marginal Falls Economics Quests

Welcome to Marginal Falls

Step into a fictional town where economic theory meets reality. These interactive, classroom-based experiments are designed to build your intuition for foundational microeconomic principles through immersive gameplay.

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Mayor's Dilemma

Begin in Marginal Falls by choosing policy incentives and watching how citizens respond when the rules change.

Incentives Rationality Unintended Effects
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Riverside Choice

Allocate scarce riverfront land between parks and apartments while weighing trade-offs at the margin.

Scarcity Trade-offs Marginal Analysis
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Marginal Falls Murder

Hire investigators and narrow the crime window while observing diminishing marginal returns.

Diminishing Returns Marginal Benefit Marginal Cost
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Operation: Contingency Plan

Build the strongest investigation plan under a fixed budget by comparing marginal conviction gains.

Budget Constraint Optimal Bundle Marginal Utility
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Operation: Contingency Plan

Choose investigation bundles under changing forensic prices and see how optimal choices shift when prices change.

Demand Prices Substitution
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Elasticity Jar Sort

Sort Marginal Falls goods into elastic and inelastic demand jars by reasoning through substitutes, urgency, and time.

Elasticity Substitutes Buyer Sensitivity
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The Block Party

Plan the town block party and watch how total output, marginal product, and costs move as the class scales up.

Production Costs Diminishing Returns
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Founders' Night Exchange

Trade pastry ingredients through class markets and discover how prices coordinate buyers and sellers.

Markets Equilibrium Exchange
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The Berry Vault

Use reservation values and market prices to measure consumer surplus and producer surplus in the town bank.

Consumer Surplus Producer Surplus Welfare
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Price Posting Market

Open a storefront, post prices across rounds, and watch competitive pressure push prices toward the market outcome.

Perfect Competition Price Taking Convergence
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Differentiate for Donations

Create a distinctive charity name and slogan, then see how product differentiation can attract more donations.

Monopolistic Competition Product Differentiation Demand
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The Starlight Shuttle War

Enter the corporate district, choose shuttle fares against a rival, and identify the Nash outcome in a price game.

Oligopoly Game Theory Nash Equilibrium
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