“If she was a white girl‚ she could still be alive.” A sentence in the lyric of the song our keynote speaker plays echoes in the assembly hall‚ crammed with more than one thousand people—students and faculty members. The song Not One More by TWOCC grieves the loss of several transgender women of color. Our keynote speaker says that the life expectancy of transgender women of color in the US is merely 35 years. Compared to the average global life expectancy of 70 years old‚ that number is depressing
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More Than One Reality By: Ethan Caldwell Reality is kind of like a memory. Everyone has their own different ideas of what it should be but none are necessarily the truth. For example two people who were both in the great depression could have totally different thoughts on the difficult times. While one could have lived on the streets struggling every day to find food and water‚ the other could have been among the few rich people and lived in luxury. Both of them would have very different memories
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The Civil War’s outcome could have gone either way‚ on one hand you have the North‚ which had the industrial advantage‚ and the South on the other who had a home field advantage and better generals too. The war pitted brother against brother and father against son‚ and lost many wives their sons and or husbands. The victory of the North was due to many economical factors that hindered‚ and ultimately defeated the South. The North was the industrial part of the country. It depended on its’ factories
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and firms make decisions and how they interact with one another in markets. • Macroeconomics – the study of the economy as a whole. – Its goal is to explain the economic changes that affect many households‚ firms‚ and markets at once. • The Two Groups of Economists • Macroeconomists • Focus on the economy as a whole. • Spend much time analyzing how total income changes and how changes in income cause changes in other modes of economic behavior. • Microeconomists • Focus on the markets
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Review on "Understanding Real Business Cycle" by Charles I. Plosser In the journal of Economic Perspectives – Volume 3‚ Number 3 – Summer 1989 – Pages 51 – 77‚ Charles I. Plosser introduced the Neoclassical Model of Capital Accumulation for the use of studying real business cycle. The paper discussed the model focusing on the impact of technological shock. The model is based on the capital stock is accumulated. The technology shock could provide a rational choice of the agents in the economy
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Recessions: periods of falling real incomes and rising unemployment Depressions: severe recessions (very rare) Short-run economic fluctuations are often called business cycles FACTS: 1. Economic fluctuations are irregular and unpredictable. 2. Most macroeconomic quantities fluctuate together. 3. As output falls‚ unemployment rises. The AD curve shows the quantity of all g&s demanded in the economy at any given price level. Y = C + I + G + NX When an increase happened to C
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The economy of Switzerland is one of the world’s most stable economies. Its policy of long-term monetary security and political stability has made Switzerland a safe haven for investors‚ creating an economy that is increasingly dependent on a steady tide of foreign investment. Switzerland has achieved one of the highest per capita incomes in the world with low unemployment rates and a low budget deficit. The service sector has also come to play a significant economic role.
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Macroeconomic Forecast Outline Macroeconomics is‚ "the part of economics concerned with the economy as a whole; with such major aggregates as the household‚ business‚ and government sectors; and with measures of the total economy" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.13). "Two of the most critical questions in macroeconomics are: (1) What determines the level of GDP‚ given a nation ’s production capacity? (2) What causes real GDP to rise in one period and to fall in another?" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.72). So
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Topics on Economics Name Institution Instructor Subject Date Keynesian approaches in achieving long run macroeconomic stability The two schools of economic thoughts have different perspectives on how macroeconomic stability can be achieved. Keynesian economics became prominent when John Maynard Keynes introduced the concept of active participation of government in stabilizing the economy. This was because the private sector alone was not able to sustain stability
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ECMT1010 BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS A ASSIGNMENT Semester 1‚ 2011 This assignment is worth 10% of your total mark. It must be handed in by 4:30pm on Friday‚ 3 June in the marked drop-off boxes in the Merewether building (Level 2‚ reception area). Late assignments will not be accepted and will result in a zero mark. The assignment must be done individually and plagiarism will result in severe penalty and possibly a zero mark. The assignment will be marked out of 50. Marks
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