economies

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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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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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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