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DevSim: A PowerPoint-Based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game for Teaching Economic Development

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  • Mark Fabian

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This paper explains how to use a game ("DevSim") built using PowerPoint with an embedded Excel spreadsheet. DevSim plays out key structural changes studied in development [...]

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  • Mark Fabian, 2021. "DevSim: A PowerPoint-Based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game for Teaching Economic Development," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 6(2), pages 95-105, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:jtc:journl:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:95-105
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    Keywords

    Simulation; Development;

    JEL classification:

    • A21 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Pre-college
    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate

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