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Read the book material that discusses the Kraft-Heinz merger deal and gather additional information on the deal from external sources.
You may wish to consider, among other things, the strength of the economic case for intervention, the choice of policy instruments, implementation issues.
What might be the impact on government spending on entitlements such as welfare, food stamps.
What is the likely impact on the monopoly power of the IOC, the IOCs ability to exploit an all-or-nothing demand curve, and the winners curse?
Do you think that too-big-to-fail banks should be broken up like AT&T in 1982 and Standard Oil in 1911?
Why do you suppose Alan Greenspan did not heed the warnings voiced during the run-up to the financial crisis?
What are some major challenges we face in today's globalization? Do you think it was a good idea to bail out GM and Chrysler?
Do you think that those workers who lost their jobs because of the NAFTA agreement should have been fully compensated for their losses and guaranteed a job?
Do you think it is fair that a few people are able to capture a large portion of the income generated by the economy?
Do you think that keeping up with the Joneses was mainly responsible for the increase in indebtedness of the U.S. consumer?
What arc some differences between Keynesians and their opponents, the real-business-cycle school of macroeconomists?
Would you be willing to participate voluntarily in a work-sharing program as an insurance against unemployment?
Would you say that the official unemployment rate is a good estimate of the idle human resources in the economy?
What do you think happened to the well-being of the population in the bottom 20 percent of the distribution?
Do you think that part-time workers should receive the same wage per hour as full-time workers doing the same work?
Do you think it would be useful to adopt an energy policy that would free us from our dependence on foreign oil supplies?
Have you ever found that your choices were limited by decisions you made at an earlier period without lull knowledge of their hidden consequences?
Why should CEO salaries he determined by the owners of the firm. namely the shareholders, rather than the hoard of directors?
Do you think that labor should he treated by firms like they treat other factors of production such as physical capital?
Do you think there should he laws so that Angelo Mozilo would have to forfeit his wealth for the great damage he did to the American economy?
Do you think that charging $36 for overdrawing a bank account is the marginal cost to the hank of taking care of that account or arc they taking advantage of a
Why do you think Americans save so much less today than they did a generation ago although their income is higher?
Would you be in favor of prohibiting advertisements aimed at children under the age of 12 as they do in Norway?
Explain what Joseph Stiglitz meant when he described our economic system as socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest.
Can you give an example when you were not certain of the need for or quality of a product? How did you make your decision?