Macroeconomics

Choose ONE case to answer. Answer the question: Is this person counted as unemployed?Explain your answer.

 

1)      George Lewis is 16 years old, and he has no job from which he receives any pay or profit. However, George does help with the regular chores around his father’s farm and spends about 20 hours each week doing so.

2)      Lisa Fox spends most of her time taking care of her home and children, but she helps in her husband’s computer software store all day Friday and Saturday.

 

3)      Yvonne Bennett reported that 2 weeks ago she applied for a job as a receptionist at the Capitol Travel Agency and the Equity Mortgage Lending Company. She is awaiting the results of her applications.

 

4)      Mrs. Jenkins tells the interviewer that her daughter, Katherine Marie, was thinking about looking for work in the prior 4 weeks but knows of no specific efforts she has made.

 

5)      John Stetson has been checking for openings at a local superstore for each of the past 3 weeks, but his wife reported that last week he had the flu and was unable to work because of it.

 

6)      Marcus Green was laid off from the Hotshot Motor Company when the firm began retooling to produce a new model car. Marcus knows he will be called back to work as soon as the model changeover is completed, and he also knows it is unlikely that he would be able to find a job for the period he is laid off; so, although he is available to work, he is not seeking a job.

 

7)      Joan Howard told the interviewer that she has filed applications with three companies for summer jobs. However, it is only April and she doesn’t wish to start work until at least June 15, because she is attending school.

 

8) James Kelly and Elyse Martin attend Jefferson High School. James works after school at the North Star Cafe, and Elyse is seeking a part-time job at the same establishment (also after school).

 

9)      Last week, Mary Davis, who was working for Stuart Comics, went to the Coastal Video Shop on her lunch hour to be interviewed for a higher paying job.

 

10)  John Walker has a job at the Nuts and Bolts Company, but he didn’t go to work last week because of a strike at the plant. Last Thursday, he went to the Screw and Washer Factory to see about a temporary job until the strike terminates.

 

11)   Evonne Avery lost her job at the book store on Wednesday of the survey reference week. She answered newspaper want-ads on Thursday and Friday but had not obtained a new job by the end of the week.

Read the articles:

If this link does not work, your instructor can provide a pdf. file with this article.

1)      “Wait, Is Saving Good or Bad? The Paradox of Thrift” by E. Katarina Vermann

http://research.stlouisfed.org/pageone-economics/pages/newsletter.php?nid=64

2)      The paradox of thrift — for real

 

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/the-paradox-of-thrift-for-real/?_r=0

3)      Interest Rates, Aggregate Demand, and the Paradox of Thrift

http://muddywatermacro.wustl.edu/interest-rates-aggregate-demand-paradox-of-thrift

 

In your initial response to the topic you have to answer all 3 questions.

You are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as well as to your instructor.

 

1. What is the paradox of thrift? Is Saving Good or Bad?Is it real?
2. Give an example of the paradox pf thrift..
3. What is the reverse paradox of thrift?

 

 

Ice-Cream Bank’s Rocky Road

Activity Description: Differentiation vs. Cost Leadership

Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself. If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style. (100 points) (A 3-page response is required.)

Part A	Identify two (2) companies, each pursuing a fundamentally different strategy: one diversification, the other, stability. The two firms need not be in the same industry, but they need to be public and based in the U.S.
Part B	Explain why each firm has opted for its chosen strategy. Specifically, you should highlight the exogenous and endogenous factors that might have contributed to their choice. For example, is stability the only feasible strategy in the industry in which the firm operates? If so, why? What makes diversification a poor choice? Or, if diversification is feasible and some of the firm’s competitors pursue diversification, what valuable, rare, inimitable resources do those companies hold that would allow them to successfully implement diversification instead of stability?
Part C	Given the company’s level of success, should it continue to pursue its current primary strategy or look to change? State whether the fundamental strategies of the companies you have chosen have changed in the recent past. If they have, explain the drivers of the change. (For instance, has there been a change in leadership or in consumer taste?)
Part D	Discuss the impact on performance of each company’s chosen strategy. Have these companies been successful relative to their competitors? Why or why not? If so, how? Please be sure to clearly identify the direct link between the company’s strategy and the economic outcome it yielded.

 

The Week’s Slide contribution will consist of at least a one to three page document, double spaced with headers consisting of the slide’s separate questions with a discussion that answers each of the questions:

 

 

 

You may choose any company that interests you. The company that you choose will be the same one used for each of the Five Slides and during your Practicum.

 

What the Competition Has Been Up To

 

1. What has each competitor done in the past year to change the playing field?
2. Has anyone introduced game-changing new products, new technologies, or a new distribution channel?
3. Are there any new entrants, and what have they been up to in the past year?

What one want is Walton unable to satisfy?

Organisms can be beneficial or harmful to humans. For this discussion, you will research the Internet and choose ONE organism from one of the following groups: Prokaryotes, Protists, Plants, or Fungi that is beneficial or harmful to humans. Do not write about the group organisms in general. You may NOTchoose an organism in the Animal Kingdom. Therefore, it is to your advantage to choose your topic early in the week. In your initial post, describe the organism that you chose and why or how they are beneficial or harmful to humans. Make sure to include the species’ scientific name, its domain and kingdom (if eukaryotic), and information about the uniqueness of the species.

 

250 to 300 words max, APA  format

judiastic studies: essay: critical anyalsis of the Yoma. isolating one feature of the yoma’s decsription of the yom kippur ritual that is importnat. be judiscious

what is the relation between Yoma and Leviticus 16?

-how faithfully do the rabbis render the bibilical ritual laws?

-what do the rabbis add to the biblical description?

-do the rabbis fail to mention anything mentioned in the bible?

Discuss three challenges affecting development in the third world countries two pages.

Project description
Reflection Paper Education

For this reflection paper, you are to find two news stories (from newspapers, online news sources, video, etc.) that cover education-related issues in Philadelphia or the Philadelphia area. Because of the state governments severe defunding of the School District of Philadelphia, and the intense cutbacks that have been made, there LOTS AND LOTS of articles in the local press, as well as many in the national press.

Read or watch the story and consider the ways in which variables such as inequality, race, class, politics, and the economy factor into the issues discussed in the report as well as how these may affect the way in which the story is reported. Do the reports have an agenda? Do you find any similarities or differences from the schools that Kozol presented in Savage Inequalities? Is there anything in the article that can help you support or contradict Kozols assertion that schools today are racially segregated?

Consider the issues raised in the report in terms of the ways in which education was discussed in your readings as well as in our discussions; be sure to draw on the terms and concepts covered in your readings and in our discussions (e.g., credentialism, bestowal of status, tracking, bureaucratization of schools, etc.).

All Reflection Papers should be between 34 pages in length, typed, double-spaced with 12 point font and 1-inch margins. Reflection papers must make use of reference materials (course materials or outside readings), and must include in-text citations for the quotes or references made in your essay as well as a bibliography.

Don’t use advance and as second language.

Discuss three challenges affecting development in the third world countries two pages.