The Economics Behind The Death Star. Given the current rate of innovation and progress in construction (and design) technologies, we tend to assume that anything can be built.
Think up any ridiculous shape or size you'd like for a building, and if there is a rising economy of plutocrats willing to pay for it, a totalitarian state to muscle it past any potential construction hiccups, and plenty of marginalized laborers to be exploited to build it, there's a good chance it will be realized. Well, you decide you want to go the post-modern route, in particular, millennial OMA, say a perfect sphere, monstrous in size--140km (87 miles) in diameter--and which doubles as the most destructive weapon in the universe, with enough firepower to vaporize entire planets at will? How much would it cost to build this megastructure-to-end-all-megastructures? And, more importantly, how much steel would be required to construct your very own Death Star? Those are the questions that economics students at Lehigh University wanted answered. Economy Games. Fun and Games. Economics Fun and Games Social Studies can be learned from playing games.
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Bright Green: Globalization in the Virtual World. Chinese farmers may be on the cutting-edge of the global economy.
But not the Chinese farmers you're probably imagining -- rural agriculturalists in the Middle Kingdom. The Chinese farmers I'm talking about sit in front of computer screens for hours on end, killing video game monsters online, over and over again. In early May, I wrote about the growth of massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and the real-world market that has arisen for virtual-world goods. People looking for an advantage (or simply pressed for time, and wishing to keep up with peers) will pay surprisingly large amounts of actual money for bits of virtual currency or rare items.
And although nearly every MMORPG prohibits such sales, auctions of virtual gear can amount to millions of dollars every year. Within the games, the act of repeating an action over and over again in order to accumulate the resulting treasure is known semi-derisively as "farming. " It will be tricky to legitimize this operation. Home - Virtonomics - unique economics on-line game. Fed Chairman Game. SimRepublic - The online strategy, politics, economics and social simulation game. Budget Hero. Lemonade Stand - Play it now ONLY at Coolmath-Games.com. Gluey 2 Group and remove blobs of the same color to get them to disappear.
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These are all pieces of what we call the economy, and making sense of it can sometimes be confusing. Scholastic News is here to help! The Economy for Kids Special Report collects resources and articles to help you make sense of the economy, how it works, and what makes it such a vital part of our lives. This Special Report will grow as Scholastic Kid Reporters and editors come up with new articles, games, and guides. So bookmark this page and check back often for the most complete coverage of the economy and how it’s affecting your world. Begin exploring Economy for Kids by playing the What's That Economics Word game to test your knowledge about important economic terms. What's That Economics Word? Play word scramble and word search games with vocabulary words you need to know when talking about the economy. Articles It's the Economy by Dante A. Crisis Goes Global by Dante A. Activities. Political online game and economic simulation - Free - independent - realistic.