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.