Assignment
Topic: A Case for Made in America Products: Pros or Cons.
Your assignment:
Currently there seem to be a reawaking of the "buy made in America" spirit. Proponents of the idea seem convinced that it is a sure path to restoring American jobs and keeping our neighbors and community employed, but is it?
Your assignment is to write a comprehensive research paper presenting a support (pro) or against (cons) Americans buying only or mainly "made in America" products, and the impact of this decision on American and global economy.
Points to consider in your write-up:
- What is the perceived advantage or disadvantage (if any) of the achieving this notion?
- Giving the present globalization is the notion of Americans buying mainly or only made in America product an illusion or could it be achieved?
- What impact would the achievement of the above have on America's economy?
- How would the rest of the world react to American made products?
- What effect will this have on consumer choice? Vis-à-vis availability of variety of products and services, maximizing consumers' welfare, etc.?
- What effect(s), if any, does consumer choice play in the quest for made in America products?
- Can cost of labor help or affect America's ability to achieve this "dream" of made in America products?
- Can top management compensation help or affect America's ability to achieve this "dream" of made in America products? What about personal or corporate taxes? How would they impact on this?
- What policy advice would you suggest to improve or achieve the situation, or otherwise?
Guidelines:
- You are expected to show a clear and very lucid understanding of the concepts studied in this class by using relevant terminologies and examples in your write-up and presentation.
- You are expected to demonstrate and use extra research from other sources other than your textbook and class lecture. Your term paper must have at least a minimum of four in-text citations.
Three of the required in-text citations must NOT include your textbook; in other words show good use of external research. You must also have a work-cited page different from main work.
- The use of data, graphs, tables, and figures from your research will be highly favored in grading.
- It would be to your advantage to prove your understanding of the concepts of economics by applying such terms and concepts in your paper and presentation.
Specific instructions regarding mechanics of writing:
Your research paper must be in ONE MS Word file or Rich Text File (RTF). Use ONLY the APA academic writing style. Please go to your class' Blackboard "Resource" folder for the link to Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) resource in case of doubt of what constitutes APA writing standard.
Your research paper should NOT be more than five thousand (5,000) words long (excluding title, and work cited pages), and no less than one thousand, five hundred (1,500) words long. Use ONLY Times New Roman font type and font size 12, line spacing is 2.0 (double spacing).
Writing less than the required 1,500 words will cause you to lose points, just as writing beyond the required maximum of 5,000 words will also cause you to lose points.