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I sometimes use a simulation to teach my students about the different factors that developing country governments must consider in their quest for economic progress. This is an Excel-based simulation, where teams of students decide how to allocate resources each turn, then the moderator enters their budgets into a preprogrammed Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet calculates how many different factors interact, including some random effects, then comes back with the turn's results and the team's resources for the next turn. The game can be found here
[A real post would include a more lengthy explanation]
[The linked file is actually an earlier version I put up as an example. If you would actually be interested in looking at the current (2005) version, I can search around on my backups and find it]
[the maintainer of the site could be responsible for keeping the submitted games on his/her institution's home page. I think that would be better than have everyone do it on their own. And for some people emailing their game to the maintainer would be much easier than maintaining it on the web. Wouldn't be much work for the maintainer. If Frank/Doug/Frank aren't interested I could do it]
[We should agree on a standardized set of tags. That would allow readers to effectively search the blog for a particular subject (constutions, alliances, etc.) or a particular time period (20 minute, full period, multiple period, etc.) without any additional work to create/maintain a search engine]
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Looks interesting. Have you thought about allowing inter-group interaction, so for example two groups could sign a trade treaty that would affect both economies?
Good idea, anonymous. And maybe you could have the treaty affect the two groups "social cohesion" as well, depending on the relative levels of industrialization (to reflect what might happen if one of the countries got flooded with cheap exports from the other).
Tried this in class. Was so busy doing computer stuff that I couldn't interact with or watch the students. IMHO, only use this sim if you have a grad assistant to do the computer work. :(
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