Microeconomics

issues of markets, how prices are formed, prices, choices, consumer or producer behavior. Your general topic should be something involving Microeconomics. You might wish to go through the table of contents or index of our textbook early in the course and identify a general topic that interests you. For essay one focus on material learned in the first half of the course and for essay two concentrate on a topic learned in the second part of the term. That is, focus on price formation and markets for the first essay and issues of market structure or the applied topics for the second. It might help to examine some issues found in reputable newspapers or other publications. Reading to familiarize yourselves with economic issues might help you develop an interest in a topic.

After you have selected a topic find one, two, or more articles on that topic. Articles that appear in economic journals are valuable sources of research as they have rich bibliographies. You may also search for articles in periodicals such as Businessweek, The Economist, Fortune, or others. Good newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor are also good sources for current event articles. The essays should summarize the articles and relate them to the material learned in class. The basic idea of this exercise is to allow you to read, think and write on a topic of your choice that relates to material you have been learning in class. After you have identified your topic of interest and selected the articles you are going to review follow these guidelines. The essays are not research papers. They ask you to read articles related to Microeconomics, summarize the content of the articles, and link them to the material you have been learning in class. Each essay should have a minimum of 1,000 words and should not exceed 1,500 words. It should be completed in .doc, docx or .rtf format using MLA.

INTRODUCTION. The introduction states the reason(s) why your topic deserves consideration. In other words, why is your topic relevant and why is it of interest to the the public.

SUMMARY OF RESEARCHED ARTICLEs. Each article should be summarized separately. At the beginning of each summary, please state the author, the title, the source of the article, and the date it was published. Do not start a new page with each summary. Also, consider that the articles you select must have a common theme or topic. They can’t be randomly selected articles on Microeconomics.

TEXTBOOK CONNECTION. Search through your textbook and obtain all information that relates to your topic. Show how the articles supported or contradicted information in your textbook.

EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION. In this section you should state assess the topic. How does this topic relate to your life now and in the future? How does this topic affect you or a particular business or industry?