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Sept 4, 2009

Sept 4, 2009. Readings posted on Aplia and class site Mankiw’s 10 basic principles of economics (continued). 10 Principles of Economics. 5. Trade Can Make Everyone Better Off By Increasing Wealth. 10 Principles of Economics. Markets Are Usually a Good Way to Organize Economic Activity.

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Sept 4, 2009

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  1. Sept 4, 2009 Readings posted on Aplia and class site Mankiw’s 10 basic principles of economics (continued)

  2. 10 Principles of Economics 5. Trade Can Make Everyone Better Off By Increasing Wealth

  3. 10 Principles of Economics Markets Are Usually a Good Way to Organize Economic Activity

  4. Thinking about economics and markets: I was in discussion with a senior Russian official whose job it was to direct the production of bread in St. Petersburg. “Please understand that we are keen to move towards a market system,” he told me. “But we need to understand the fundamental details of how such a system works. Tell me, for example, who is in charge of the supply of bread to the population of London? There is nothing naive about his question, because the answer, nobody is in charge, is astonishingly hard to believe. Only in the industrialized West, have we forgotten just how strange it is. --Paul Seabright: The Company of Strangers

  5. Markets are Everywhere, and for Everything

  6. Markets Everywhere—Prison Edition The Shawshank Redemption

  7. 10 Principles of Economics • Governments Can Sometimes Improve Market Outcomes • Property Rights • Externalities • Public Goods

  8. 10 Principles of Economics • A Country’s Standard of Living Depends on Its Ability to Produce Goods and Services

  9. 10 Principles of Economics Prices Rise When the Government Prints Too Much Money

  10. Who is this man?

  11. 10 Principles of Economics Society Faces a Short-Run Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment

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