Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Economics Study Guide

Welcome students to the multiple-week discussion board. For this post, I am giving you more than a week to answer these questions. These questions are here to guide you and help you focus your studying to areas where you will need to have a good grasp of the content.  If you are able to answer these questions and have a good grasp of the material from it, you will do well on your final.


What is an entrepreneur?

What would an economist conder be land?

What does Human capital include?

What would cause a production possibilities curve to move down and to the left?

What can cause a production possibilities curve to move to the right?

What is the motivating force behind the free market?

What type of safety nets are used by the government to help citizens?

Why do markets exist?

What is the black market?

What is rent control?

What is a monopoly?

What brought about labor unions?

Why would the United States want to establish a stable banking system?

What is the difference between a recession and a depression?

What is the Federal Reserve? 

What is interest rates suppose to do? 

What does elasticity mean to economics?

Why does the government protect inventors and authors by offering them patents and copyrights?



Monday, April 12, 2021

8.3 Global Setting: U.S. Labor Market (Due 4/16)




 In a short response, essay students are to respond to the two questions below.


-Describe what you think of the current U.S. economy and labor market. Make sure to include the types of goods and services that the U.S. produces and the types of workers that are needed to achieve those products. 


-What are the effects of rapid technological changes that are occurring in the economy now and what impacts will those changes take on the international global stage. 



Monday, April 5, 2021

8.2 Economics: Government Fiscal Policies (Due 4/9)

 



Students will need to read: Fiscal Policy: Taking and Giving Away

Answer the questions below

What are the aims of government fiscal policies?

What influences on production, employment and price does the government have on fiscal policies? 

How do taxation, borrowing, and spending account for fiscal policies?

What are some examples of government fiscal policies being good for the United States?

What are some bad examples of when government fiscal policies have hurt the United States? 


Economics Study Guide Version 2

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