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    Chapter 3 Organizer 3.1 Establishing a Global Presence |Why is achieving a competitive advantage a|Leads to increase sales and profits. | |goal? |Major goal of corporations is to maximize profits. | | |If you do not enjoy any competitive advantages you will lose market share (customers)

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    Chapter 3 3. Before the industrial revolution the cottage industry was an industry that was centered in self-sufficient rural households. After the industrial revolutions production moved to urban factories where production was more efficient and on a larger scale. Advances in technology such as the advent of the steam power brought about specialized factories that drastically improved the productivity of the workers. 4. If the cost of producing a good for a household is below the market price

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    5. Copy three important passages (minimum of 3 sentences each); and then respond to these passages. Why do you think they are important? How do they help the author create his purpose? 1.“Economics is‚ at root‚ the study of incentives: how people get what they want‚ or need‚ especially when other people want or need the same thing. Economists love incentives. They love to dream them up and enact them‚ study them and tinker with them. The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented

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    trade-offs‚ and so is economics." Indeed‚ so is Naked Economics. This book promises to be a good introduction to economics for the layman. Throughout the book‚ the author uses easy-to-understand language and vivid examples to illustrate his points in strategic places maintaining a sense of lightness with the readers in reading the material. Here is a summary of each of the 12 Chapters of the book Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan. CHAPTER 1 - The Power of Markets:

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    Chapter 7 In this chapter‚ the author uses an example of dieting to show that people use other people’s very basic understanding of markets to control them‚ and how knowing more can save you more. He says that a major contributor to that is that people‚ especially in America‚ can spend money that is not theirs. This is called a credit system (uses credit cards). Being able to do this‚ he says‚ is a good and a bad thing because people can overspend and end up broke. He says that this ties into

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    desired. Using this method‚ as the author elaborates‚ is really how we determine if the cost of an item costs more than it once did. Along with the importance of cost of living‚ the Real GDP and Real GDP per capita also play an important role in our economic growth. While talking about GDP‚ the author states the feelings of Americans by stating “Indeed‚ if we all believe the economy is likely to get worse‚ then it will get worse. And if we all believe it will get better‚ then it will get better (12)

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    Homework assignment for chapter 5:  Problems 5.4 (page 177)‚ 5.4 A die is thrown (1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6) and a coin is tossed (H‚ T). (a) Enumerate the elementary events in the sample space for the die/coin combination. (b) Are the elementary events equally likely? Explain. A) Elementary events are - DIE COIN 1 2 3 4 5 6 HEADS H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 TAILS T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 B) YES‚ EACH EVENT IS EQUALLY LIKELY TO OCCUR. THERE ARE 12 POSSIBLE OUTCOMES AS A RESULT OF ROLLING OE DIE AND

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    Naked Economics Assignment After reading the book‚ please complete the following questions for discussion. Your responses must be typed‚ and they will be collected on the first day of class. Chapter 1: The Power of Markets • What are the two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms? • What is the role and significance of prices in the market economy? • What’s so great about a market economy anyway? Market allocation 3 / Assume rational utility-maximizers 6 /

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    CHAPTER 4 Problems 1‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 and 7: 1. “In the United States where land is cheap‚ the ratio of land to labor used in cattle raising is higher than that of land used in wheat growing. But in more crowded countries‚ where land is expensive and labor is cheap‚ it is common to raise cows by using less land and more labor than Americans use to grow wheat. Can we still say that raising cattle is land intensive compared with farming wheat? Why or why not? Perhaps‚ but the argument implicit

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    data show a positive correlation between political stability and economic growth. a. Through what mechanism could political stability lead to strong economic growth? b. Through what mechanism could strong economic growth lead to political stability? Ans 8 a. Political stability could lead to strong economic growth by making the country attractive to investors. The increased investment would raise economic growth. b. Strong economic growth could lead to political stability because when people have

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