WORLD 01
I
choice, scarcity, competition, game theory, and institutions
← Grade 12 Horizon Launch
PREVIEW PATHWAY · INCENTIVES, INSTITUTIONS, TRADEOFFS, AND PUBLIC CHOICE
Economics, Ethics & Public Policy
Follow the incentive. Count the tradeoff. Ask who carries the consequence.
The Civic Balance keeps offering perfect solutions with invisible price tags. Super Gio needs a policy thinker who can read incentives, compare evidence, name tradeoffs, and remember that every tidy chart represents untidy human lives.
FIELD NOTE FROM GIO“A policy without a tradeoff is probably a poster. Check the fine print.”
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POLICY
GRADE 12 ARTIFACTIncentive Map
HORIZON LAUNCH · PREVIEW MAP
Eight mapped worlds to shape
Selected Challenge missions model independent review; progress here is not course credit or mastery.
WORLD 02
E
growth, inflation, employment, cycles, and monetary systems
Macroeconomic Systems
Macroeconomic indicators describe different parts of an economy and require context before they support policy conclusions.WORLD 03
H
public goods, externalities, information, and regulation
Market Failure and Externalities
Markets can misallocate costs and benefits when prices omit spillovers, shared resources, or unequal information.WORLD 04
P
taxation, spending, debt, opportunity cost, and priorities
Public Finance and Budgets
A public budget translates values into constrained choices about revenue, services, investment, risk, and time.1
LearnRead a public budget
→2PracticeProgressive tax calculation
→3ChallengeIntergenerational tradeoff
→SUPER GIO CHALLENGE · WORLDS 1–4
WORLD 05
M
income, wealth, opportunity, institutions, and measurement
Inequality and Economic Mobility
Economic inequality has multiple measures and causes, requiring careful distinction between outcomes, access, and mobility.WORLD 06
D
heuristics, framing, risk, nudges, and autonomy
Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making
Human decisions respond to framing and cognitive shortcuts, complicating models of perfectly rational choice.WORLD 07
P
criteria, evidence, distribution, feasibility, and ethics
Policy Analysis and Ethics
Policy analysis compares alternatives transparently, including effectiveness, cost, fairness, implementation, and uncertainty.WORLD 08
P
stakeholder research, recommendation, communication, and revision
Civic Policy Lab
A credible recommendation addresses a real audience, anticipates objections, and separates evidence from value judgments.SUPER GIO CHALLENGE · WORLDS 5–8