Sean Davis Macroeconomics Mr. Vincent 1/10/13 “Naked Economics” by Charles Wheelan Economics is on fundamental level of the study of scarcity. Human desires are unlimited‚ but resources aren’t and every society tries to figure out how to allocate its resources for maximum benefit. The field of economics attempts in large part‚ to help understand these resource allocations and decisions. Resources allocated largely according to the forces of supply and demand‚ and prices serve as
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Chapter 1 The Power of Markets Charles states as his number one point that economics is really unpredictable. He uses the Coca-Cola Company as a fine example for this. That company starts of turning out to be loss and failure but within 10 years since it started it turned out to be very profitable. Charles also states that markets are extreme powerhouses over individual’s daily lives. Markets are also self-correcting because they use prices to allocate their resources. Individuals all work
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thing. He also includes insurance‚ investing‚ and other programs that could result in a major loss of money‚ though not in most cases. He says that this is called behavioral economics‚ which is how natural human behavior can result in poor economic choises‚ or good ones. Wheelan then procedes to talk of how good economic behaviors can make you get “rich quick”. He uses an example of buying a house and selling it for more money. Cases like these are extremely rare‚ and the Author says that this
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data show a positive correlation between political stability and economic growth. a. Through what mechanism could political stability lead to strong economic growth? b. Through what mechanism could strong economic growth lead to political stability? Ans 8 a. Political stability could lead to strong economic growth by making the country attractive to investors. The increased investment would raise economic growth. b. Strong economic growth could lead to political stability because when people have
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desired. Using this method‚ as the author elaborates‚ is really how we determine if the cost of an item costs more than it once did. Along with the importance of cost of living‚ the Real GDP and Real GDP per capita also play an important role in our economic growth. While talking about GDP‚ the author states the feelings of Americans by stating “Indeed‚ if we all believe the economy is likely to get worse‚ then it will get worse. And if we all believe it will get better‚ then it will get better (12)
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In Pittsburgh there are many young adults having sexual contact and getting pregnant and these are only one of the places with lots of young pregnant women. McKeesport high school in Pittsburgh everyone thinks it’s normal to see two or three pregnant girls at a time walking down the halls‚ but it doesn’t mean people don’t gossip about them. National Campaign to Prevent Teen pregnancy statistics show that teens are waiting until the age of 16 to have sex‚ that is 2 years longer then they use to. Teen
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Homework assignment for chapter 5: Problems 5.4 (page 177)‚ 5.4 A die is thrown (1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6) and a coin is tossed (H‚ T). (a) Enumerate the elementary events in the sample space for the die/coin combination. (b) Are the elementary events equally likely? Explain. A) Elementary events are - DIE COIN 1 2 3 4 5 6 HEADS H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 TAILS T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 B) YES‚ EACH EVENT IS EQUALLY LIKELY TO OCCUR. THERE ARE 12 POSSIBLE OUTCOMES AS A RESULT OF ROLLING OE DIE AND
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CHAPTER 4 Problems 1‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 and 7: 1. “In the United States where land is cheap‚ the ratio of land to labor used in cattle raising is higher than that of land used in wheat growing. But in more crowded countries‚ where land is expensive and labor is cheap‚ it is common to raise cows by using less land and more labor than Americans use to grow wheat. Can we still say that raising cattle is land intensive compared with farming wheat? Why or why not? Perhaps‚ but the argument implicit
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NAKED ECONOMICS Chapters 11 and 12 CHAPTER 11: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ERM: Exchange Rate Mechanism This agreement was designed to manage large fluctuations in the exchange rate between European nations The ERM created targets for the exchange rates among the participating countries Each government was obligated to pursue policies that kept its currency trading on international currency markets within a narrow band around this target Currencies are no different than any other good; the exchange
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