We have been practicing different things in order to develop our different learning skills

We have practiced our thinking skills, we used remembering & recalling information by retrieving relevant knowledge from our memory about microeconomic concepts by watching and playing the Mafia III trilogy and identifying economic concepts where they show up. For example we have identified invisible hand when Joe and Vito were selling “off the truck” packages of cigarettes to different buyers for a man who supplied the goods and truck, Eddie.

In addition, we have shown that we understand different concepts by explaining them and interpreting their meaning in different contexts in an effort to apply these concepts through illustrating how they play out throughout the trilogy. For example in our workbooks we have explained how we see the spectrum competition in Mafia II when it comes to the Kentucky Whiskey supplier working with Morello and how Salieri tries to enter into that market not to form an oligopoly but replace Morello as the only firm in Lost haven.

Your task for this final paper is to articulate a defensible thesis in response to a prompt that will ask you to use your evaluation skills which requires analysis. You will need to make a judgment based on a set criteria regarding the degree to which (evaluate) microeconomic concepts can be applied to the Mafia Trilogy. This will require you to break down the games and the concepts into smaller parts in order to see how they relate to each other (analysis). APA FORMAT with Title Page. You must use evidence from video games, articles, and textbooks.

Prompt:

Using a defensible thesis, evaluate the extent to which microeconomic concepts can be applied to the Mafia trilogy.

CFS

How did I address what is being asked?
How did I fully address all or most potential factors?
Do I take a stance?
Do I establish a line of reasoning that is easy to follow and supports my stance?

Requirements:

Use of all vocabulary from Week 4 excluding concepts we did not cover in class
Use of 5 other economic concepts
At least 5 references to the Kumar and Skaperdas Article

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