Explore economic concepts through guided scenarios, dynamic graphs, and immediate feedback.
Positive and negative production and consumption externalities
Launch: Open Externalities Practice
Work through a random set of externality scenarios one step at a time. Identify who creates the spillover, whether it helps or harms third parties, how the social curve differs from the private curve, whether the market produces too much or too little, and which policy moves the market toward the social optimum.
Consumer choice, budget lines, indifference curves, and demand
Launch: Open Demand Curve Practice
Work through three random consumer scenarios to derive a demand curve from utility-maximizing choices. The exercise uses interactive graphs and guided questions to connect changes in a good's price with budget lines, optimal bundles, and movements along the demand curve.
The production possibilities frontier for health and home goods in the Grossman model
Launch: Open Grossman PPF Interactive
Explore how allocating time among health production, sickness, and home-good production creates a backward-bending frontier. Move along the frontier, examine key points, connect preferences to choices, check your understanding, and see how education or medical efficiency shifts the entire curve.
The labor–leisure trade-off and time constraint in the Grossman model
Launch: Open Labor–Leisure Interactive
Explore how Ed divides healthy time between work and leisure. The interactive lesson develops the time constraint, introduces preferences and indifference curves, identifies the best choice, and shows how additional healthy time changes the feasible set and equilibrium.
Marginal efficiency of investment in health and the Grossman model
Launch: Open Health Investment Interactive
Find the optimal health stock by comparing the marginal efficiency of health investment with its user cost. Then explore the Grossman model's predictions for how age, wages, and education affect health, and check your understanding with guided questions.