Economistry explores how incentives, rules, and strategic behavior shape outcomes in games, markets, organizations, and everyday life.
We use board games, simulations, and quantitative reasoning as laboratories for understanding decision-making under uncertainty. A game can reveal auction dynamics, coordination problems, risk management, bottlenecks, negotiation incentives, and competitive adaptation in a way that is concrete, testable, and surprisingly transferable.
Topics include:
- Winning strategies in modern and classic board games
- Simulation and modeling for better decisions
- Auctions, markets, and mechanism design
- Fairness, inequality, and incentive systems
- Causal reasoning in complex environments
- Statistics and decision science in practice
- How rules create behavior
Some essays dive deep into a single game. Others extract broader lessons for founders, leaders, analysts, and curious thinkers navigating real-world systems.
Economistry is written by Jon Page, an independent researcher and educator with a PhD in Economics.
If you enjoy strategic thinking, practical economics, and learning through games, you're in the right place.
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