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Economics, learned by doing. Free interactive practice with spaced repetition.
Shift the curves, work the problems, and let spaced reviews quietly catch the gaps — micro and macro, built on what cognitive science says works.
Aras Zirgulis, PhD — Professor of Economics, ISM University.
Teaching economics? The instructor kit is here.
Every dot is one trader: how much a buyer would pay, or the least a seller would take. Bars show each trader's gain.
Equilibrium — every trade that makes both sides better off happens (11 of them). No shortage, no glut.
Price
12.79
Trades
11
Market
Cleared
Two courses. Open without an account.
Both courses run end to end — micro from scarcity to information economics, macro from the circular flow through to policy.
Fifty concepts, and every dependency between them.
Each column is a unit; each dot a concept. Point at one — blue traces back to what it needs first, amber forward to what it unlocks.
Hover or tap any concept
Fifty concepts, one dependency graph
Point at or tap a dot to see what it needs first and what it opens up. Nothing here is locked — the diagnostic simply finds the first thing you cannot already do.
Builds on
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Unlocks
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Two things make this different from a course you watch.
Neither is a feature list. Both are decisions with a paper behind them.
Pillar one
Built to be done, not watched.
Drag a price ceiling down and the shortage opens under your cursor. That is the lesson — not a video about the lesson.
- →58 figures you drag, break and rebuild
- →Every concept ends in a graded problem
- →A diagnostic drops you at the right starting point
Pillar two — the moat
Pedagogy from the literature, not from vibes.
Five algorithms and ten evidence-based principles, each traceable to a citation. All of it documented in the open.
Retrieval practice
Half again the retention of re-reading
Karpicke & Roediger · 2008
Spaced repetition (FSRS)
Reviews land at the useful moment
Ye et al. · 2023
Performance Factor Analysis
Mastery per concept, and it can fall
Pavlik et al. · 2009
Desirable difficulties
Harder now, remembered longer
Bjork & Bjork · 1992
Two minutes to your first concept.
No credit card, no trial window, nothing to cancel later.
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Create your account
Google or email. That is the whole of it.
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Take the diagnostic
A short placement test skips what you can already do and seeds your path.
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Learn, review, repeat
Concepts return the moment they would otherwise fade. Mastery moves in both directions.
Questions people actually ask.
Is Econ Academy really free?+
Yes. The full curriculum, every figure, the spaced repetition and the adaptive engine. No trial period, no card, no upsell waiting at unit six.
What topics does Econ Academy cover?+
Two courses. Microeconomics in full — fourteen units and fifty concepts, from scarcity and supply and demand through elasticity, consumer theory, production and cost, market structures, game theory, factor markets, welfare and information economics. Macroeconomics runs the full sequence too, from the circular flow through to fiscal and monetary policy.
Do you cover macroeconomics?+
Yes. All thirteen macro units are live — the circular flow, GDP, inflation, unemployment, AD–AS, fiscal and monetary policy, growth, and the open economy.
How is this different from Khan Academy or Coursera?+
Those platforms mostly hand you content to consume. Here every concept carries practice questions, figures you manipulate, and a review schedule. The engine keeps you at a difficulty that is uncomfortable on purpose.
What is spaced repetition?+
Reviewing something just as you are about to forget it, rather than cramming. Intervals stretch as your grip improves. We use FSRS, the scheduler behind Anki.
Do I need any economics background?+
None. It starts at what economics is and what scarcity means, then builds. The diagnostic lets you skip anything you can already do.
How long does it take to complete the curriculum?+
That depends on your pace and prior knowledge. Most learners spend 15 to 30 minutes per session. The diagnostic can advance you past material you already know.
07 — Start
Build economics knowledge that survives the exam.
Adaptive, research-backed and free. Start on unit one, or let the diagnostic find where you actually are.
Start learning