The Inflation Dial — Pizza Prices Tell a Story
Build a CPI from a 6-item basket, diagnose three inflation episodes (demand-pull, cost-push, monetary), and choose a standing monetary-policy regime.
About this simulation
A high-school civic and public economics simulation. Four citizen advisors of the Republic of Costaria face a CO$ 100 bn federal budget across 8 categories, must absorb a CO$ 4 bn debt-service shock, and choose a tax instrument to raise CO$ 8 bn. Teaches budget shares as policy choices, mandatory vs discretionary spending, opportunity cost at national scale, fiscal incidence, and the equity-efficiency trade-off.
Who it is for
An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.