Assignment: Using the Ten Principles to Analyze a Challenging Economic Issue
Throughout the course, you have been provided with videos and articles in This Week in Business News. Pick one of these articles/videos which deals with an economic challenge that interests you.
It should be an article/video from which you learned the most, from which you got an insight that changed your mind, or with which you disagree.
Prepare a paper on this article/video in which you explain why you chose it. What made this issue important to you?
Then identify which of the Ten Principles this article relies on. Does this article/video reject any or all of the Ten Principles?
In your analysis of the article/video and the Ten Principles, be sure to rely on at least two high-quality professional or academic articles on the same issue.
This paper must include:
• Your introduction, summary and understanding of the initial article/video
• A short discussion of your research and conclusions you were able to draw from it.
• An explanation of what you learned and how you will use this new understanding.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Write an introduction for your paper explaining what the topic is, why the topic in the article/video is important to you, and why you think others should try to understand it.
2. Write at least one paragraph summarizing the key points made in the article/video.
3. Identify and explain how Mankiw's 10 Principles are foundational to the issues discussed in the article/video.