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ECO 561 Week 1 Discussion Decision Making and
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Decision Making and Buyer Behavior Post a total
of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days
for full participation. This includes your
initial post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Monday Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words People may make bad decisions
because they fail to compare the relevant costs
and benefits. Do you agree? Provide an example of
when you made a bad decision, and an example of
when you made
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ECO 561 Week 2 Discussion Competition and the
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Competition and the Invisible Hand Post a total
of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days
for full participation. This includes your
initial post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words Read the following statement and
discuss if you agree or disagree, and your
rationale If the demand of illegal drugs is
inelastic, increased arrests of illegal-drug
sellers will increase total
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ECO 561 Week 3 Discussion Explaining the
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Explaining the Imperfections Post a total of 3
substantive responses over 2 separate days for
full participation. This includes your initial
post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words Explain why monopoly sellers usually
offer discount prices to buyers who are willing
to mail in a rebate coupon or endure some other
type of inconvenience. Discuss why traditional
economic models
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ECO 561 Week 4 Discussion Income Distribution and
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Income Distribution and Labor Markets Post a
total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate
days for full participation. This includes your
initial post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words Discuss at least two self-interested
reasons that a top earner might favor policies to
redistribute income. Discuss why the supply
curve of labor for any specific occupation is
likely to
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ECO 561 Week 5 Discussion Money Multiplier FOR
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Discussion Money Multiplier Post a total of 3
substantive responses over 2 separate days for
full participation. This includes your initial
post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Watch the Money Multiplier Money
Multiplier Transcript Respond to the following in
a minimum of 175 words This video explains the
multiplier effect. How does the multiplier
facilitate the creation of money? Note Be
careful you do not confuse the monetary
multiplier
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ECO 561 Week 5 Discussion Open Economy
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m ECO 561 Week 5 Discussion Open Economy
Activities Post a total of 3 substantive
responses over 2 separate days for full
participation. This includes your initial post
and 2 replies to other students. Due Thursday One
standard that corporations use to evaluate their
performance against their competitors is the set
of rankings developed by Fortune magazine. These
include the Fortune 500, the 100 Best Companies
to Work For, and other lists. The public also
uses these
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ECO 561 Week 6 Discussion Economic Growth and
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Economic Growth and Capital Flow Post a total of
3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for
full participation. This includes your initial
post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words Discuss the following statement from
Principles of Economics Because the environment
is fragile and natural resources are finite,
ultimately economic growth must come to an end.
Explain
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ECO 561 Week 6 Discussion System Dynamics FOR
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Discussion System Dynamics Post a total of 3
substantive responses over 2 separate days for
full participation. This includes your initial
post and 2 replies to other students. Due
Thursday Watch System Dynamics from the
University Library. Respond to the following in a
minimum of 175 words
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1 Assignment 1) For the fall semester, you had to
pay a nonrefundable fee of 600 for your meal
plan, which gives you up to 150 meals. If you eat
100 meals, your average cost for a meal is 2)
Refer to the accompanying table below. The
marginal cost of the 4th unit of activity is 3)
Refer to the accompanying table below. The
average cost of 5 units of activity is 4)
Suppose the most you would be willing to pay for
a plane ticket home is 250. If you buy
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2 Assignment 1) If the price elasticity of demand
for pineapples is 0.75, then a 4 percent increase
in the price of pineapples will lead to a 2)
Suppose the company that owns the vending
machines on your campus has doubled the price of
a can of soda. They then notice that they are
selling
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3 Assignment 1) The essential feature that
differentiates imperfectly competitive firms from
perfectly competitive firms is that an
imperfectly competitive firm 2) If a firm faces
a downward-sloping demand curve, then 3) Given
the demand curve it faces, if an imperfectly
competitive firm
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4 Assignment 1) The optimal amount of information
to acquire before making a purchase is 2) This
graph illustrates the marginal costs and marginal
benefits of acquiring information before making a
major purchase. Suppose the marginal cost and
marginal benefit curves were MC0 and MB0
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5 Assignment 1) The following graph is the
production possibility curve for a three-person
economy, with workers Janna, Drew, and Karl. The
slope of the PPC between points X and Y is
determined by _____ opportunity cost. 2) Sheila
and Jim live in an island where they are the only
two workers. Sheila can either catch 10 fish or
gather 40 pounds of berries each day, and Jim can
either catch 8 fish or gather 24 pounds of
berries each day. Both of them
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ECO 561T Apply Week 5 Think Like an Economist
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Think Like an Economist Assignment Instructions
The accompanying table shows how total donations,
average donations, total labor costs and average
labor costs vary depending on the number of
employees State U hires for its fundraising
activities. Complete the following Calculate
the total value of donations raised by three
employees, and explain the method you used to
make this calculation.
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6 Assignment 1) Average labor productivity times
the proportion of the population employed equals
2) A nation's standard of living,
as measured by real GDP per person, increases 3)
If average labor productivity increases, real GDP
per person 4) Suppose that average
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ECO 561T Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
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Decision Making and Buyer Behavior ECO 561 Week
2 Discussion Competition and the Invisible
Hand ECO 561 Week 3 Discussion Explaining the
Imperfections ECO 561 Week 4 Discussion Income
Distribution and Labor Markets ECO 561 Week 5
Discussion Money Multiplier ECO 561 Week 5
Discussion Open Economy Activities ECO 561T
Apply Week 5 Think Like an Economist
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Question 1)The table below shows your total
benefit measured in dollars from drinking
different amounts of coffee each day.whats your
marginal benefit from a second cup of coffee?
Number of cups of coffee per day Total benefit
per day(in dollars) 0 0 1 5 2 9 3 12 4 14 5 15
2)The table below shows your total benefit
measured in dollars from drinking different
amounts of coffee each day.If each cup of coffee
costs you 2.50,then how many
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2 Practice Knowledge Check 1)If the price of
textbooks increases by one percent and the
quantity demanded falls by one-half percent, then
the price elasticity of demand is equal to 2)If
20 percent increase in the price of a good leads
to a 60 percent decrease in the quantity
demanded, then what is the price elasticity of
demand? 3)When the price of NBA tickets is 25
each, 30,000 tickets are sold. After the price
rises to 30 each, 20,000 tickets are sold. At
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3 Practice Knowledge Check 1)If people use the
representative heuristic they assume that
something is ___ likely to belong to a category
the more it shares characteristics thought to be
representative of membership in that category
2)The ______ heuristic is the rule of thumb that
estimates the frequency of an event by the ease
with which it is possible to summon examples from
memory 3)In traditional economic models the
decision-maker often
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5 Practice Knowledge Check 1)An economy has two
workers, Paula and Ricardo. Every day they work,
Paula can produce 4 computers or 16 shirts, and
Ricardo can produce 6 computers or 12 shirts.
What is the opportunity cost for Ricardo to
produce one computer? 2)An economy has two
workers, Paula and Ricardo. Every day they work,
Paula can produce 4 computers or 16 shirts, and
Ricardo can produce 6 computers or 12 shirts.
What is the most of each
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6 Practice Knowledge Check 1)How is real output
per person calculated? 2)Y/POPY/N xN/POP is an
3)The most important factor for long run economic
growth is 4)If the share of the population
employed is unchanged and real output per person
increases by 20 percent,then it means that 5)In
the last 50years,the share of population employed
in the U.S. has increased because 6)If Y/N
equals 3,000/person and N/Pop equals 0.9,then
real output per
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