NS3040 Class Presentations Fall Quarter 2017

Second Class

• Greg Ip, Defense of the Dismal Science, WSJ, August 25, 2017

• Basic Microeconomic Tools

• Ed. Dolan Elasticy in Afghanistan

• Ed. Dolan Opportunity Costs

• The Minimum Wage

• Video WSJ on the Minimum Wage: The Young and the Unemployed , January 6, 2016

• Video WSJ on the Minimum Wage: Killing Jobs in California, March 30, 2016

• Video WSJ Greg Ip, Wages and Productivity, May 2015

Third Class

• Additional Microeconomic Tools -- Budget Optimization

• Veblin Goods

• Models of Competition

• Ed Dolan, Consumer/Producer Surplus, January 2015

• Ed Dolan, Diamonds: How to Price a Finite Resource, April 26, 2010, 2010 (monopoly example)

• Ed Dolan, China's Fragile Rare Earth Monopoly, October 23, 2010 (oligopoly example)

• Commodity Prices: Trends, Super-Cycles, and Short-Run Spikes and Busts

• Ed Dolan, Does Peak Phosphate Spell Doom for Humanity or Will supply and Demand Save Us? July 30, 2013

Fourth Class

• Market Failures/Cost Benefit Analysis

• Ed Dolan, Soda Taxes, April 13, 2010

• Examples Market Imperfections

• Price Theory Applications

Optional Illustrations of Market Equilibriums

• Ed Dolan, Chocolate Lovers Keep Nervous Watch on Volatile Cocoa Prices, October 10, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Why is Oilive Oil, Good for the Body, Getting Hard on the Pocket Book?, February 4, 2013, 2010

• Ed Dolan, The Economics of Legal Marijuana Markets, July 9, 2014

• Ed Dolan, Why Really Pays Taxes? The Question of Tax Incidence, June 21, 2014

• Ed Dolan, The Opportunity Cost of Driving, December 29, 2014

• Ed Dolan, Will Fracking Enrich India's guar Farmers, July 30, 2012

• Ed Dolan, Does Peak Phosphate Spell Doom for Humanity or Will supply and Demand Save Us? July 30, 2013

• Ed Dolan, Move Over Ethanol, Market Forces Favor CNG, March 16, 2011

• Ed Dolan, Technology, Environment and The Future of Natural Gas, February 24, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Almond Prices, November 12, 2013

• Ed Dolan, Blood Markets, September 15, 2014

International Trade Theories October 11

• Introductory Video on Why International Trade and Investment Are Good for the US Economy: A Story in Eight Charts

• U.S. Trade Patterns

• IMF, What's Behind the Slowdown, October 2016 (video)

• Trade Theories

• Crisis in Global Shipping, Foreign Affairs, October 5, 2016

• Product Life Cycle

• Globalization Effects