Assignment 2: Required Assignment—Balancing Company Interests vs. the Public Interest

Select a topic and work on the relevant tasks for this assignment.

Topic A:

The United States has still not recovered from the  recent wave of  mortgage defaults and foreclosures. Experts predict that  the housing  market will take years to recover in some locations due to a  variety of  factors. There are numerous publications that detail how the  problem  developed. Many of the reasons for the collapse of the housing  market  have ethical implications.

Tasks:

• Using the Argosy University online library resources or the Internet, research the financial collapse of the housing market.
• Create a 10- to 12-page report discussing your findings. Explore the evidence from an ethical point of view.

Topic B:

Tasks:

• Select three or four essays from your textbook relating to your  area  of experience and expertise (for example, finance, accounting, or   technology).
• Create a 10- to 12-page report critiquing your chosen readings.        
  • Include a literature review of your chosen essays, starting with a synopsis of the major ideas and themes in each essay.
• Conduct an in-depth critique of the essays by comparing and contrasting the essential points discussed in each work.
• Include a reflective assessment of what lessons one can learn from   the points brought up in the essays and how they can effectively be   implemented in a typical business setting.

The following is a checklist that you can use in analyzing or critiquing your chosen essays:

Each piece of writing is different; but, in most cases,  the majority  of these questions are applicable. Use these questions as a  point of  reference for your critique. You may also cover other relevant  aspects  of an essay not addressed by the critique question list below:

• Is the essay's title a clear depiction of its content? Why or why not?
• Is the author qualified to write about the subject matter?
• What is the purpose of the essay? Is it stated clearly?
• Identify the problem statement in the essay. Does the introduction and conclusion focus clearly on the problem statement?
• Is the statement of facts (beyond commonly known facts) supported by appropriate citations in the text and/or references?
• Which ideas in the essay need further development?
• What ideas in the essay are practical enough to be implemented in a   business setting and which ideas are rather impractical? Why?
• Does the essay contain discursive or irrelevant sections? If yes, what are they?
• Is the work biased in any way? Examine the author's biases.
• Is there an idea that is common to all the essays?
• How is the essay different from the other essay(s) you are also critiquing?

Complete the tasks pertaining to the chosen topic.

Economics

Evaluate the following statements using graphical analysis. Provide a brief narrative explanation of your graph to support your evaluation. Make sure the axes and curves in your graphs are properly labeled. 

a. True or false, “When demand for home heating oil increases, a shortage of heating oil will occur.” 

b. True or false, “A decrease in the supply of random access memory (RAM) chips for personal computers causes a shortage of RAM chips.”

 Q5: Ch 3 (10%) Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and, therefore, net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is MC= 70P, where P represents a reduction of one unit of pollution in the mines. It also feels that for every unit of pollution reduction the marginal increase in revenue (MR) is MR= 1,200 −10P. How much pollution reduction should Appalachian Coal Mining undertake?

ECO 204 Week 5 Final Paper Market Structure

In an eight- to 10-page paper, describe each market structure discussed in the course (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly), provide a real-life example of each market, and respond to the following for each market structure:

• Indicate how high entry barriers into a market will influence:
  • Long-run profitability of the firms
  • Cost efficiency of the firms in the industry
  • Likelihood that some inefficient firms will survive
  • Incentive of entrepreneurs to develop substitutes for the product supplied by the firms
• Are competitive pressures present in markets with high barriers to entry? Explain.
• Describe which market structure you would prefer for selling products. Explain why and support your answer with the characteristics of that market.
• Describe which market structure you would prefer for buying products. Explain why and support your answer with the characteristics of that market.
• How does each market structure respond to price changes of the products that they sell? Explain whether each market structure will be selling elastic or inelastic products, and how this will affect the market price charged.
• How does the role of the government affect each market structure’s ability to price their products?
• How does international trade affect each market structure?

The Market Structures Final Paper

• Must be eight to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  •  Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Short Answer About The Documentary "Money As Debt"

Watch the documentary "Money as Debt" and briefly explain the historical origin of the "fractional banking." 

What have you learned from this movie regarding how money is generated our economic system? 

Link to Full Transcript: https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-money-as-debt-full-length-documentary/

Response Assignment 4

Response Guidelines

 Please respond to at least one of your peers (see attachment). State whether you agree or disagree with any or all of the reasons given and why. Use the course readings and your own research to support your arguments and use APA guidelines for citations and references.

Discussion

 Research and describe a product ideation model or methodology. Describe the ideation approach and how you might use it in your collaboration assignment for this module. 100 words

Documentary Critique

The Methamphetamine Epidemic Documentary Critique – Students will watch this documentary and write a 5 page critique, in APA format, answering the questions below. Please start each section of your critique by stating the question you are addressing.  You will be able to watch this online for free by vesting the following website: http://video.pbs.org/video/1933783731/   

Please address the following in your critique: 

•What are your views on this film? Does it have merit? 

•Does this film portray a realistic picture of an issue facing the healthcare system? Why or why not? 

•What are the health policy and economic issues created as a result of the topic of this movie? Please indicate each issue and how it relates to this documentary. •What policy should the U.S. take on drugs? 

•Do you think that the U.S. should legalize certain drugs? Why or why not?

Study Research

Choose the country you will conduct your case study on. Provide an introduction that includes:

1. Country Choice

2.Rationale for choosing this country (for example: family ties, vacation spot, movies, news reports, etc.) and,

3.Why this country should be studied in relation to international economics and finance (i.e. current trends in trade, finance, or fashion)

Discussion Board

Why does a doctor serve as the patient’s “agent,” making choices about which hospital and what medicine to use?  Are they biased in their decisions? Are rising malpractice insurance premiums a major cause of higher doctor bills and some doctors leaving their professions?

2 paragraphs

2 references 

International Trade & Decision Making

Presidential Debates talked about how to revive our domestic production and create jobs.  Here are examples of  three industries where the US domestic producers are losing, or outsourcing by moving productions overseas. 

(1)   Shrimp industry:  about ninety percent of US shrimp consumption is imported from overseas.   The domestic producers made complaints that are standard when a US producer faces foreign competition, and the US Department of Commerce has approved protective tariffs against shrimp imports.  As a result, American consumers now will not be able to benefit from the lower cost of production from the low-cost shrimp producers from Asia or Latin America.

(2)   The US imposed tariffs about 27 percent on lumber from Canada. You would think this would hurt Canadian lumber producers, and it did.  But it also forced them to be more efficient, while the US lumbers produce at relatively inefficient mills. The result is that more US lumber mills have closed than Canadian ones.

(3)   The Auto manufacturing states in the upper Midwest region such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio have turned into crucial battlegrounds during the election campaign.  The US government accused China for unfairly subsidizing its car components industry, and then the US imposed tariff on car-parts imported from China.  China retaliated with imposing import tariffs on other goods that it imports from the US.  This dispute is currently being reviewed by WTO.

If you were an economic adviser to a Presidential Candidate, what would be your advice regarding trade, import tariff or quota, and how to revive the domestic production?  In giving your answers, please refer to the above industries. 

.  As a guideline, each of the 10 points will be derived from the following:

1. Post your answer (350 words) to the posted DQ responding to the matter asked, instead of repeating the question or not attending to the question. Substantive answers include making comments using concepts found in the assigned reading materials or offering examples from your experience. Hence merely providing a brief “yes, I agree” or “no, I do not agree” postings are not adequate posts

2. Write in correct grammar; any errors will translate to a deduction in points.

3. Check for the spelling; any errors will deduct points.

4. Your responses must be substantive that include your own thoughts, supported with research (at least two external sources other than textbook, and you must quote these sources).

5. Offer a creative solutions in addition to the obvious socio-economic impacts of each topic, such as environment, politic, or other issues.  

6. Offer a future recommendation or alternative options for the future with regard to the topic in question.