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What economic lessons can we learn from playing Super Mario Bros? What about from playing other video games? In this video I have a conversation with Nancy Baca from Northern Arizona University to discuss economic lessons in video games. We focus mostly on the economic lessons that can be learned from playing Super Mario Bros, which include issues with scarcity, opportunity costs, tradeoffs, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:28 Super Mario Bros playthrough clip
4:00 Economic lessons from Super Mario Bros
7:20 Opportunity cost in Super Mario Bros
11:02 Economics in all video games
11:55 Economics in the Last of Us video game
12:45 "Mining" in video games
13:38 Purchase of virtual goods, ex: Forrnite
14:40 Upping the risk with using one life mode
16:25 Sunk costs
19:40 Everybody is engaged in some sort of gaming, ex: Candy Crush, Angry Birds

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Nancy Baca is the Director of the Alliance Bank Economic Policy Institute and Associate Teaching Professor in Economics at Northern Arizona University: https://directory.nau.edu/departments...