Assignment:
Microeconomic Term Paper:
Word or Rich-Text format. This term paper should reflect on the value of Economics as a Social Science and how it relates to their lives, their employment, their community, their nation and the world community.
If you chose to write a microeconomic paper it should be oriented toward the marginal costs and benefits of a decision that an individual, business, government, etc. entity has made, will make, or may make. The paper should capture your personal interest and may reflect a situation where you are/were the decision maker. Approved topics include the following general topics:
- Purchasing decisions
- Houses/cars/consumer durables/electronics
- Life/Health/Property Casualty Insurance
- Production decisions
- Product development
- Product innovation
- Product manufacturing
- Starting/managing a business
- Evidence of competition or monopoly power
- Environmental Issues
- Recycling benefits/costs
- Shuttering coal-fired power plants
- Electric Cars
- Cap and Trade in U.S. and/or Europe
- Oil shale development in U.S.
- Natural Gas developments in the U.S.
- Deep Water Drilling for Oil
- Value oriented behaviors
- Legalization of marijuana
- Legal but damaging substance use/abuse
- Prostitution
- Euthanasia
- Abortion
- Pornography
- Altruism
- Family behaviors and decisions
- Credit management and budgeting
- Child behavior incentives
- marriage or divorce
- children or not
- Alternative lifestyles
The paper should follow standard college written techniques, complete with footnotes or references, bibliography, and with proper grammar and spelling.
The length should be 4-5 pages double spaced with 12-point font print and include a minimum of 3 outside references.
If you have an alternative topic or questions on the topics let me know.