Academic year 2013/14 LM Economics and Market Policy Applied Microeconomics C Benassi corrado.benassi@unibo.it Office hrs: Mon 11-12 6 hrs per week - 10 weeks ————————————————————— Course outline: 1. General introduction 2. Consumption and Demand Theory: (a) Basic issues in the theory of consumer’s choice: preferences and budget constraints‚ demand functions and their properties; (b) Duality in consumption; Applications: (a) Applied analysis and expenditure systems; (b) Separability
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us. Gilbert offered an explanation for why in 2009‚ Americans seemed to be growing unhappier despite relative fiscal luxury. Gilbert said‚ “..human beings find uncertainty more painful than the things they’re uncertain about.” His point is that ambiguity makes us nervous‚ which is an assertion that agrees with my own experiences. Uncertainty is a major cause of unhappiness‚ on both a universal and private scale. For an example of the former‚ the situation Gilbert wrote about‚ in which Americans were
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Johnny Mendez 9a2 Age of Uncertainty Paper During the aftermath of WWI‚ the world was recovering from massive attacks and damages through out the war years. During this time things started changing for the better‚ advancements in certain fields such as technology and science‚ and for the worse‚ events and leaders (Hitler‚ Mussolini) leading to World War II. People were experiencing new ideas that revolutionaries
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The uncertainty reduction theory was created with intention of giving an explanation to an everyday occurrence when encountering new people. The theory gives reason to something everyday people experience regularly without consciously thinking about it. Psychology had attempted to explain the emotional process of first encounters but never like this. Although a lot of thought and consideration had been put into this‚ there was no way it could consistently cover every aspect it addresses. Diving further
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RESEARCH METHOD IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Social Psychology: The way we perceive ourselves in relation to the rest of the world plays an important role in our choices‚ behaviours and beliefs. Conversely‚ the opinions of others also impact our behaviour and the way we view ourselves. Social psychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how social phenomena influence us and how people interact with others. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviours
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What is evolutionary psychology? In the three and a half centuries since William Harvey proved that the purpose of the heart is to pump blood‚ physiologists have revealed the functional organization of the body in blinding detail. Their discoveries demonstrate beyond question that the structure of the body serves survival and reproduction. Further‚ there is near unanimity among biologists that this functional structure is a product of natural selection. In our century‚ psychologists have developed
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"The Fronde" The Fronde was a period of uncertainty in France. A time in which a newly crowned king of just ten years old at the time. A young king named Louis XIV was chased by the upper middle class and the nobility and treated as prisoners. These two social groups required some change in their government. They desired less powering the hand of the king and more toward the people’s hands. However‚ everyone knows that this contradicts what Louis XIV desired for France; an absolute monarchy. One
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Chemistry Lab Report Design Research question: how to find the absolute uncertainty of a conical flask? Variables: Independent variable: volume of water to be measured Dependent variable: mass of water Controlled variable: temperature wind speed type of chemical solution (water) Apparatus: A 100 mL conical flask A 4 decimal place electronic balance Distilled water A 250 mL beaker A dropper Tissue paper Procedure: 1) The conical
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EXPERIMENT The purpose of this lab was to determine the magnitude of the uncertainties produced when making measurements using common lab equipment. II.APPARATUS AND MATERIALS NEEDED safety goggles distilled water (at 20°C) laboratory apron dropper laboratory balance 2 objects of unknown mass standard masses graduated cylinder‚ 10-mL graduated cylinder‚ 100-mL III.PROCEDURE Part A: Estimating the Uncertainty of a Balance 1.We put on lab aprons and goggles. Then‚ we used the zeroing
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