Economics

QUESTION Introduction to Environmental Economics Your extra credit assignment is to watch the movie “Erin Brockovich” closely and write a review paper discussing concepts we are covering in the class that can be related to the context of this movie. The review paper should be in a typed write-up not more than 4 pages, double […]

QUESTION Introduction to Environmental Economics Film Review Assignment In “Poisoned Waters” (I hr, 53 minutes), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem. The complete video clip is available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/view/ Your assignment is to watch the video clip “Poisoned Waters” closely and write a review paper discussing […]

QUESTION Overview In response to the variable effects of conservation efforts and loss of biodiversity, zoos began to turn their attention to the conservation of endangered species and wildlife in the 1970s and 1980s. Supporting conservation efforts became an important goal for the modern zoo. A major milestone towards this goal was the Convention on […]

QUESTION What is e-commerce and why do some people still have concerns about e-commerce? Are these concerns legitimate? what is meant by geo-targeting, or location-based advertising? ANSWER Understanding E-commerce, Addressing Concerns, and Exploring Geo-Targeting in Advertising Introduction E-commerce, or electronic commerce, refers to the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet. It […]

QUESTION The United States incarcerates more people, in both absolute numbers and per capita, than any other nation in the world. Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people has increased sevenfold to 2.3 million in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime. In the United States, approximately half a million correctional officers […]

QUESTION Instructions Mineral Research Assignment For this assignment, you will be briefly conducting some research about only one mineral. Choose one mineral from the list below based on the following criteria: Either choose a mineral from the list that begins with the same letter as your first or last name OR Choose a mineral from […]

ANSWERED Given your understanding of how financial decisions are made in either for-profit or non-profit firms, choose a specific firm as a basis for your posts. • What are the linkages among financial decisions, return, risk and stock value for this firm? • Why are these linkages important? • How does the financial manager incorporate […]

QUESTION Edler and Fagerberg present three commonly-articulated frameworks or justifications for “innovation policy.” In your answer, select one of the authors listed below. Explain which of Edler and Fagerberg’s frameworks you believe would best fit a set of policy prescriptions that reflect your selected author’s argument about how innovative environments are characterized. That is, if […]

QUESTION Concisely explain Lester & Piore’s distinction between analytic and interpretive approaches as they apply to regulation. Then, consider Saxenian’s account of Silicon Valley and Route 128. Make an argument about which kind of regulatory approach to technology development seems most appropriate given Saxenian’s argument about why Silicon Valley succeeded and Boston faltered. That is, […]

QUESTION Market and “Non-Market” Dimensions of Innovation The “market-centered” organizational view of how innovation is best achieved – rooted in Adam Smith’s work, seen in The Economist, implied in “supply and demand” models and in Zakaria’s discussion of “Western” culture – has been central to political and intellectual debates for the last 40 years, particularly […]