Final Exam Economics 2017

Gas Price in Churchill

Tesla in Cobalt

November 6 & 9

Presentations

Micro-savings / credit

Politics / transparency / community

Review

October 30 & November 2

Of Course, there is no reason to think that being poor makes you more short-sighted or impatient than the average person. But there is good reason to think that being unusually impatient will make you poor.

Filthy Lucre

It is also through for discounting behaviour, expensive addictions, keeping up with the Jones, taking too much risks...

And, what is there to redistribute in Canada?

Assets Incomes

Oil

Water Summit

Economy of Canada

October 23 & 26

Articles for assignments;

Summarize, provide a critic of the text and explain how it is linked to a specific concept that we covered in class

Cannabis in Manitoba

Shopping Evolves

NAFTA & Apparel Industry

Firm Creation in Canada

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

Access to Land

Reduce Poverty?

The Price of Jam

Phoney War

Tax on Sugar

New Highway in Arctic

Emerging Markets

 

CED Process

Maslow & CED

Image

Federal Budget CBC

Redistribution per Province

What is a trade deficit in reality? It depends on the type of currency you use but at the end of the day, you exchange something for something. Total sales equal total buys. You have some control on what you sell...

In a perfect world, we would not have to tax imports because we could tax all the transactions. But some jurisdictions do not have the capacity to collect transaction taxes and some others try to compete by lowering them which could be considered as a collective action problem.

Recession

Potato Shortage

Butter Shortage

Distribution de la richesse

Alena en cartes

October 16 & 19

Globalization Contributes to Marginalization

Manufacturing Jobs in Ontario

Milk Products Supply Management

Amazon in Toronto?

C-Series

Subsidies

Expensive

October 12

Multinational companies and taxes

Job market in OECD

Entrepreneurship in OECD

Select one of the 7 following links, summarize the subject of the document and explain how it is linked to one of the concepts covered so far in this course. Send an electronic copy of your work and be ready for a 5 minutes presentation on the subject. Time sensitive, due on Oct 16.

Affordable housing in large cities

Free Parking?

Their cost

War on Drugs

50,000

Energy East Cancelled

Governments reactions Insider reaction

Solar Power Update

IEA

FN renewable energy projects

The authors

Solar Energy in Africa

October 2 & 5

Link for volunteers registration

Moral Hazard

CBC on Obama

CTV on Obama

CORE

Unit 1.3

Gates Foundation Report

Website

Not Sustainable

Tax Reform

Farmers Market

Calgary

Audio

Select one of the 6 previous links, summarize the subject of the document and explain how it is linked to one of the concepts covered so far in this course. Send an electronic copy of your work and be ready for a 5 minutes presentation on the subject. Time sensitive, due on Oct 5.

September 25 & 28

Collective Action Problems

Comparative Advantage

Chapter 3

Inflation

WTO

September 18 & 21

Trade

Caretakers Government

Babies in Finland

Opportunity costs

The concept of Social Programs, Free Riding & Externalities

Toyota exercise

What is expected for your presentation on a national economy;

Statisticso Sizeo Populationo GDPo Trade

Import / export Partners

Resourceso Location and geography

o Most important resources available in the countryo  

Redistributiono Size of governments' part of GDPo GINI

Industrieso Agricultureo Manufacturingo Serviceso Profile of business; small business, headquarters, renowned companies

Strengths

Challenges

September 14

Median Total Income

In the US

Costs and Benefits of Education

Minimum Wage in Ontario

Opportunity Costs

Age of the human species

September 7

Value of Sand

Houston NP

How about N. S. Koreas

7 decades of separation BW GDP GDP / Person Size in km2 % of fresh water Population National Government Budget (US $) % of budget to military (# of active member) % of budget on education GINI

Resources

Read Chapter 1 of Poor Economics

August 2017

Outline_2017 TSA - What is happening in Venezuela?

Profile of wealth in Canada;

About 1,117,000 Canadians have a net worth over $1,000,000 Distribution de la richesse How many poors 100 richest

Venezuela