Course kits · ☕ Coffee Shop Clash

MICROECONOMICS

Marginal cost meets the morning rush, one rival across the street.

Built for principles-of-micro courses that want supply, demand, and marginal cost to leave the whiteboard.

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What your students do

Student teams run a coffee shop head-to-head with a rival across the street: menu prices, day-to-day operations, customer programs with diminishing returns, and one-shot investments that change their ceiling. Marginal thinking stops being a diagram and starts being the morning rush.

The rhythm

The market closes once a day at 5 PM: whatever decisions a team has saved are what run. Results arrive as a daily report with the economics lesson and a class discussion prompt attached.

Every result feeds the class leaderboard — and ventures that finish a season go on the permanent Universe Ledger.

The 15-week curriculum

Sequenced fundamentals-first, so any prefix is a coherent course: run 4 weeks as a supplement, 6 as a module, or all 15 as the semester. Each week ships an eText, a decision brief tied to the live market, a discussion, and a quiz — and the final exam covers exactly the weeks you ran.

  1. 1.Supply & Demand
  2. 2.Elasticity
  3. 3.Consumer Choice & Marginal Utility
  4. 4.Production & Costs
  5. 5.Market Structures
  6. 6.Profit Maximization & Pricing
  7. 7.Price Discrimination & Market Segmentation
  8. 8.Game Theory & Strategic Interaction
  9. 9.Labor Economics
  10. 10.Capital & Investment Decisions
  11. 11.Information, Reputation & Signaling
  12. 12.Behavioral Economics
  13. 13.Location, Externalities & Neighborhood Effects
  14. 14.Welfare: Surplus, Efficiency & Deadweight Loss
  15. 15.Capstone: A Complete Market Analysis of Your Shop

Setup takes an afternoon, not a semester

  1. 1 · Generate. Pick your course length in the Canvas Cartridge Generator and import the .imscc into Canvas — modules, assignments, quizzes, dates, all done.
  2. 2 · Invite. Create your section, put the join code on the syllabus. Students join free; one $49/year pass covers every Extrapoli course they take.
  3. 3 · Teach. The market closes daily; reports arrive with the lesson and the discussion prompt attached. The leaderboard settles every argument.

Prefer to run the sim beside your own syllabus? Skip the cartridge — the join code works on its own. See pricing →