Featured tool
Big Mac Index Explorer
An interactive currency valuation explorer based on The Economist's Big Mac Index dataset. Great for exchange rates, PPP, and over/undervaluation discussion.
Open toolSt. Bonaventure University
SBU Econ
A home for economics teaching materials, course pages, and interactive classroom tools.
This site is set up to grow into separate course pages, class demos, and applets that students can use outside class.
Interactive tools
Classroom applets
Quick access to interactive demos and teaching tools.
Trade theory
Comparative Advantage Practice
Practice two-producer, two-good trade problems, calculate opportunity cost, and check comparative advantage logic step by step.
Open toolSupply and demand
Supply-Demand Shift Practice
Work through demand and supply shift scenarios, interpret equilibrium changes, and reinforce graph-reading intuition.
Open toolPolitical economy
Polymarket Intelligence
Explore political betting-market probabilities and compare market-implied expectations with conventional forecasting.
Prediction markets can be useful because prices aggregate many participants' beliefs and often adjust quickly as new information arrives.
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Additional applets
- US Presidential Elections 1789–2024 — long-run election exploration and historical context.
- Federal Workforce Reduction Impact Map — geographic view of workforce reduction effects.
- MegaCap 50: Beyond the Balance Sheet — a corporate/markets applet for broader economics discussion.
Courses
Course pages coming soon
This shell is ready for subpages by course, with readings, links, assignments, and interactive examples.