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• ECO 203 Entire Course (Old Course)
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• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 1 Opportunity Costs
• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 2 NYC Rent
• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 1 The Local Job Force
• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 2 GDP

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ECO 203 OLD Course Tutorial

• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 1 Opportunity Costs (Old
  Course)
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• One of the scarce resources that constrain our
  behavior is time. Each of us has only 24 hours in
  a day. How do you go about allocating your time
  in a given day among competing alternatives? How
  do you go about weighing the

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• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 2 NYC Rent (Old Course)
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• The rent for apartments in New York City has been
  rising sharply. Demand for apartments in New York
  City has been rising sharply as well. This is
  hard to explain because the law of demand says
  that higher prices should lead to lower

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• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 1 The Local Job Force (Old
  Course)
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•   Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics and click
  on the links for state employment and
  unemployment. Look at your home state and
  describe what changes have taken place in the
  workforce and unemployment rate. Has the labor
  force

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• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 2 GDP (Old Course)
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• With each of the following examples, please
  explain what happens to contributions to GDP and
  economic growth in each of the following
  statements          a.       A woman who makes
  a living charging for investment advice on her
  Internet website marries one of her clients, to
  whom she now provides advice at no charge

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• ECO 203 Week 3 DQ 1 In Retrospect (Old Course)
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• While many thought that the 2008 fiscal stimulus
  plan described in the feature on pg. 174 was a
  good idea, some did not. Some even thought that
  Congress didnt go far enough. In retrospect, who
  was right?
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• ECO 203 Week 3 DQ 2 The Money Supply (Old
  Course)
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• Why do you think the FED evaluates the money
  multiplier when making decisions with regard to
  the money supply? What function does the money
  supply serve in our economy to influence certain
  economic variables?

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• ECO 203 Week 3 Fed and Its Tools
  (Old Course)
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• Given the role of the Fed in our economy, how can
  the Fed use the tools that it has to influence an
  economy that it is in a recession? The Fed has
  three tools to influence the direction of the
  economy
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• ECO 203 Week 4 DQ 1 Wage Increases (Old Course)
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• Your boss offers you a wage increase of 10
  percent. Is it possible that you are worse off
  with the wage increase than you were before?
  Explain your answer using proper economic terms
  and analysis. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings
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• ECO 203 Week 4 DQ 2 Inflation (Old Course)
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•   On pg. 255 in your text, The Economics in
  Practice describes the increase in food prices
  around the world in 2008. Since food, in large
  measure, affects the real income of households,
  increasing prices will eventually push up wages
  and have an impact on the aggregate supply curve.
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• ECO 203 Week 5 DQ 1 Balanced Budgets (Old COurse)
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•   Some states are required to balance their
  budgets. Is this measure stabilizing or
  destabilizing? Suppose all states were committed
  to a balanced budget philosophy and the economy
  moved into a recession. What effects would this
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ECO 203 OLD Course Tutorial

• ECO 203 Week 5 DQ 2 Output vs.
  Workers (Old Course)
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• Between October 2004 and 2005, real GDP in the
  United States increased by 3.6 percent, while
  nonfarm payroll jobs increased by only 1.4
  percent.

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• ECO 203 Week 5 Final Paper The Future of the
  Economy (Old Course)
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• Complete a 5-6 page final paper that completely
  answers the following
• Economists generally agree that high budget
  deficits today will reduce the growth rate of the
  economy in the future. Why? Do the reasons for
  the high budget deficit matter? In other words,
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