Studio Curriculum Suite Scarcity
Scarcity: Learn Economics
Smith to Piketty, with the live disagreements taught as disagreements.
- Subject
- Economics
- Lessons
- 100
- Glossary
- 673 terms
- Profiles
- 60
Scarcity covers the standard micro and macro sequence plus the applied fields: microeconomic foundations first, then market failure and the state, then macroeconomics and money, then applied and contemporary questions.
Economics has live disagreements, and this course teaches them as disagreements rather than picking a side. On the minimum wage you get Card and Krueger and you get the critiques. On austerity you get the multiplier debate and the Reinhart–Rogoff spreadsheet error. On inequality you get Piketty and the objections to r > g. Where the evidence is settled the lesson says so; where it is not, you get the state of the argument.
- 60 economist profiles, from Smith and Ricardo to Card and Piketty.
- 18 landmark cases where theory met the world, from the minimum wage studies to the 2008 crisis.
// how it is built
What you get
100 lessons, four years
A full degree-shaped sequence, 15 to 25 minutes a lesson, in the order the subject is actually taught.
On-device narration
Listen instead of read. Narration uses the system speech synthesizer, so no audio ever leaves the phone.
Cross-linked glossary
Hundreds of terms, each linked back to the lessons that use it and forward to the ones that build on it.
Case files
18 landmark studies, experiments or episodes reconstructed in full, each listing the record it rests on.
Spaced repetition
The scheduler brings back the terms you keep forgetting, on the interval that makes them stick.
Daily widgets
Three Home Screen widgets — a quote, a term and a figure — each rotating daily.
- Works offlineNo signal required — everything ships in the download.
- No accountNothing to sign up for. No email, no password, no profile.
- One-time unlockA single purchase, not a subscription. Family Sharing enabled.
- Home Screen widgetsGlanceable widgets that update on their own.
// common questions
FAQ
How much is free?
The first ten lessons. One purchase of $9.99 unlocks the remaining ninety and everything else, permanently, with Family Sharing enabled.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. The app makes no network connections of any kind. Every lesson, profile, glossary entry, quiz and case study is bundled in the download, which is why the download is large.
Is this accredited? Do I get credit?
No. It is a self-study course written to the level of a university survey sequence. It carries no accreditation and grants no credit.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every effect size, sample size and date in a lesson is stated so it can be checked. Case files list the specific record they rest on. Where a familiar textbook figure is wrong, the lesson gives the real one and explains why it moved.
How do I move my progress to a new phone?
Progress, bookmarks and notes are stored on-device and are included in an encrypted iPhone or iCloud device backup. Restoring that backup onto the new phone brings them across. There is no account-based sync.