Requirement:
This
section is about sharing your viewpoint on the government’s decisions.
What
could the government have done better? What policies could the
government have put in place that would have had a positive impact on the
economy? Do not write that the government did everything right. That
is not possible. Everyone had different ideas about what should be
done and how.
Which
school of economic thought (Classical, Keynesian, Monetarist or Supply
Side) drove the economic policies that the country implemented? In other
words, which type of school of thought are the policymakers following?
Why? What evidence supports this conclusion?
Research:
Each student will develop an analysis based on the
information provided and the questions asked in each activity. Research
is required by you and some suggested sources are below (though you can use
other sources as well).
Library
Resources
Statista (Statistics on econ, business,
and consumers) Hartnell ID required.)
News
sources: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance and MSN Money,
etc.
The
Economist www.economist.com
World
Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/
National
Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/
What is a school of thought? A school of thought is a
set of ideas or opinions about a matter that are shared by a group of people:
Example: There are two schools of thought on reducing
unemployment. According to Keynes, we should …
Submission:
Please
submit Research Part 3
Each
student will submit a response answering the responses to the questions
above. You do not need a title page for Part 2 but you still must
have, works cited/references at the end of each part.
Please
answer all the assignment questions
Recommended
page length: This section will be roughly 3-4 pages in length of content,
not including works cited or appendices.
5
references are required.
Format:
Typed,
double-spaced in a readable 12-point font with margins no larger than 1”
on all sides.
Must
use APA format
All
references should be cited in text.
Appendices:
Source materials must be included in separate appendices such as economic
reports that are used to draw conclusions. Other source materials
may be included in an appendix if it meets all of the following criteria:
1) the source is relevant to your topic; 2) you refer to the material in
written analysis and want the reader to be able to view the full source,
and 3) the source material is too long to only use a direct quotation.
