Assignment

Select a news article(s) that discuss the economic concept that you chose as a topic for your term paper. Usually it is enough to choose just one article, however if you can find more than one article, you can use them.

At least one news article should be dated within the previous two months.

Your task for the Term Paper is to analyze the issue described in the article using the economic concepts and theory learned in this class. Refer to the course content materials and use specific economic vocabulary within your term paper. The article you choose may not use these exact terms; therefore, it is incumbent upon you to convert the article language into economic language as is appropriate.

Include at least one graph developed in our course.

Note the Term paper should be written in your own words. You can use short quotes from the article(s) to support your statements. However the size of these quotes should be reduced to minimum. No more than 20% of the text of the term paper should be made up of quotes. (less is better!!!).

Also avoid copying the materials from any textbooks, including our textbook.

Be aware that Wikipedia, Investopedia, and other on-line dictionaries and encyclopedias are not verifiable sources of reliable information. Acceptable sources of the information are: research papers, newspaper articles, and books.

Note that this is the course of microeconomics, so you should choose the concepts related to microeconomics (not macroeconomics).

Possible concepts include:

taxes and consumer or producer surplus

demand, supply, and equilibrium price of a particular product

elasticity on a particular product

perfect competition and imperfect competition, such as monopolies

labor market, wages, and income inequality

poverty and public policy

another topic selected by the professor

Format of the Paper:

Written projects must be:

typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or Arial font, with margins no wider than one inch

have footnotes or endnotes, with correct citations

have a bibliography of sources used

include, for each entry, the author, title, city and state of publisher, publisher's name, year, and page numbers

prepared using word processing software (Microsoft Word preferred), in a manner similar to the preparation of a written assignment for classroom submission

The Term Paper should be about 3-5 or more double-spaced typewritten pages (without tables and graphs)

The paper should be written in APA style Research Paper format.