Economics · Macroeconomics

Public Goods & Free Riding: The Las Acacias Court

Run the council of a 38-household block deciding how to fund six community projects. Compare voluntary contribution, threshold pledge, vote-and-tax, and club-good across provision, equity, and trust — and feel why every government in history has eventually used coercion for public goods.

6 rounds Undergraduate English, Español
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Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 6 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Decision rule
  • Communication effort (1 quiet · 5 full campaign)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Basketball Half-Court
  • Council Decision
  • Project Ledger
  • Community Trust over Time
  • Annual Welfare Captured per Project

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Macroeconomics.

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