September 2009

Week 5 Links

September 28, 2009

A NYTimes article claims that the U.S. Dollar will see increasing competition from the Chinese Renminbi. This is an interesting article about a possible price collar on the carbon trading system. If you want to know what a price collar is click here. Here is a description of the upcoming climate bill which is going [...]

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Week 4 Notes

September 28, 2009

Here is everything that we covered last week. We started off by finishing up with the Island Game, which was fun because we got to see all of your different solutions for living on an island. Then we returned to our work in the book by picking up with our look at free markets. After [...]

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I, Pencil and The Trap

September 23, 2009

This audio book is a recording of I, Pencil which is an essay about the complexities surrounding even the most simple sounding objects in our lives. Here are links to the videos I was talking about regarding the loss of freedom in capitalist/market economies. The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom Part 1 [...]

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Interesting Articles 9/20

September 20, 2009

This is a link to a cool story on the economics of piracy. Here are some infographics that I thought you would like: Geography of a Recession How the Government Dealt with Past Recessions Where the Rich Hide Their Money In this article they explain which places would be the most suitable for High-Speed Rail [...]

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SSJE Weekly Announcements

September 20, 2009

Here are the announcements for 9/20 for SSJE, in PDF format.

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Writing the Perfect Resume… Day 3

September 16, 2009

Here is an outline of the due dates: DUE DATES Here is the grading rubric: Grading Rubric

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Economic Systems Day 2

September 16, 2009

Here are the notes about economic systems. This a continuation of our activity where we looked at four economic systems in detail: Capitalist, Socialist, Subsistence and Buddhist. The 3 Economic Questions

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Bhutan… A closer look.

September 15, 2009

Today in class we discussed various forms of economies. One of these was a “Buddhist economy” and the example I used for this was the country of Bhutan. Here is a short video about Bhutan… While it may seem that I was strongly supportive of their economy’s aims, there is, perhaps not surprisingly, another side [...]

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Writing the Perfect Resume… Day 2

September 15, 2009

Here is an example of a BAD resume. Yours will be much better! Janie’s Resume Before Fixing Here is an example of a good resume. Janie’s Resume Cleaned Up We also gave you a list of skills you could describe. Skills Writing Here is a list of verbs that you can use to start your [...]

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Production Possibilites / Economic Systems Day 1

September 15, 2009

Here are the notes from September 14th. They cover chapter 1, section 3. Today we will be doing an activity on different economic systems. Notes: Week 3 – Production Possibilities Curve I will also attach the handouts for today’s activity here. Here is an explanation of the activity: Key definitions and instructions Here are the [...]

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