Looking through my posts here are my two favorite. The first is: Sustainable Foods My second is: Well… Didn’t see that coming I’ll admit I’m taking a bit of a risk offering up the second choice that I did. But I just like my perspective when I made that post.
For me while I was not overly technical I think my best posts were “Inequality” and “Facts about PPACA” Both I feel I expressed my own growth in understanding and how my thoughts have changed in relation to these issues because of the things I am learning and reading.
During the course I have came to better understand our current economic structure and the reason we need change…even if that change does not seem comfortable. I am from a family that has NON-STOP complained about the “OBAMA CARE” but now that I have researched other countries and compared the health care I understand the … Continue reading Self Reflection…
Overall I feel I learned a lot from this course. I felt that I learned more real world applications of economics and how it relates to us right now and relates to our future. It was enjoyable that this wasn’t your typical textbook economics course. I will be the first to admit the blogging is … Continue reading Course Feedback
I’ve made a decent number of posts throughout the semester- some better than others. But there are two that stand to me as my best posts of the semester. Those are: Nogales, Arizona, US vs. Nogales, Sonora, Mexico (http://wp.me/p5Eoh6-y) and Obamacare- My thoughts (http://wp.me/p5Eoh6-M). I chose these posts because I think both of them hit on some pretty … Continue reading Best Posts
Green Festivals are a new concept to me that I learned about form the book I had to read for tour book review assignment. They’re really neat and I would love to try to make it to one! Green Festivals is America’s longest-running sustainability and green living event. Basically, they gather hundreds of vendors who … Continue reading Green Festivals
I already posted this once but I’m not quite sure where it went… so here it goes again. Clearly, statistic show that women typically make less than men. However, it seems to me that wage inequality is a less prevalent problem than before. I feel like in more recent years, women have been taking on … Continue reading Wage inequality between men and women
So, my understanding from Jim’s post is that scarcity isn’t really a problem anymore. If that’s the case, won’t that drive prices down quite a bit? That seems like basic supply and demand to me. When items become more scarce, the supply decreases driving the price up. So if items are less scarce then would … Continue reading Scarcity
Which Trap is not what Collier would refer to as conflict trap.
a) conflict trap
b) Government party trap
c) natural resource trap
d) landlocked with bad neighbors trap
My two favorite blog posts so far for the semester are: 1. Investment opportunities. I have been thinking about the quote “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”. One of the many of reasons that this is true is simply due to the ability to invest. I have been lucky enough to see … Continue reading favorite quotes