Grading Scale with plus or minus letter equivalencies:

A 100 - 93	B   85 - 83	C  75 - 73	D  65 - 63
A- 92  -89	B-  82 - 80	C- 72 - 70	D- 62 - 60
B+ 88  -86	C+ 79 - 76	D+ 69 - 66	F< 59

	On the Net: Text Book Web Site: Key Concepts, PowerPoint's, Multiple Choice Quizzes
	My contribution to the Greenspan Era Feb 4, 2006, "Shining Star of the Fed" by Laura Bayard of The Daily News, West Bend, WI

"Bernanke - A Guide to the New FED Chairman" by Lehman Brothers, Inc."

Extra Credit on Exam Two is found in the UWWC Library: For four points will be earned and added to Exam Two and/or Three after you write a one page summary on any of the chapters in: “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, 2006.   The first chapter is:  “Chapter 1: What Do School teachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?”

	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	2005 US Poverty Rates
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16

Grading Scale with plus or minus letters equivalences:

A 100 - 93	B   85 - 83	C  75 - 73	D  65 - 63
A- 92  -89	B-  82 - 80	C- 72 - 70	D- 62 - 60
B+ 88  -86	C+ 79 - 76	D+ 69 - 66	F< 59

My contribution to the Greenspan Era Feb 4, 2006, "Shining Star of the Fed" by Laura Bayard of The Daily News, West Bend, WI

"Bernanke - A Guide to the New FED Chairman" by Lehman Brothers, Inc."

Extra Credit on Exam Two is found in the UWWC Library: For four points added to Exam Two write a one page summary of either the Introduction or Chapter One of: “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, 2006.  A hard copy of the “e-book excerpt” from “perfect bound” is on reserve in the UWWC Library: You may choose either,  “Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything”, Or,  “Chapter 1: What Do School teachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?”

 

	United States Economic Indictors January 2004
	Chapter 3  Individual Markets: Demand and Supply
	Chapter 3 Quiz Answers: 1.C    2. C    3. C    4. C    5. B    6. D    7. C     8. D     9. D    10. B
	Solution to Problem 11 in Chapter 3 or 3-11.
	"For the Heatlh-Unconscious, Era of Mammoth Burger is Here'  WSJ 01-27-05
	"Consolidation of Oil-Refining Business Is Likely to Lead to Spike in Gas Prices" WSJ 01-24-02
	"Social Issues Meet Market Models in the Work of the New Economists'  WSJ 04-27-01
	Chapter 20 Elasticities of Demand and Supply
	Chapter 21 Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization
	A vice president of a company argues that the president of the company should  raise workers’ wages if the president wants less absenteeism.  The president says that wages probably should be cut so that the workers could not afford to miss so much work.  Evaluate the two views using the income and substitution effects in your analysis. Answer
	Chapter 22 The Costs of Production
	"The Lowly Carp is a 1$ Million Catch...." Wall Street Journal 02-15-05
	"Low Taxes do What" by Thomas Stowell Wall Street Journal 02-24-04
	Chapter 23 Pure Competition
	Chapter 23 Power Point
	Sample Exam 1 click here. (pdf format)
	Chapter 24 Pure Monopoly
	PowerPoint on Pure Monopoly
	Answer to Page 277 #3 Study Guide Problem on a Discriminating Monopolist
	Answer to Chapter 24 Number 8 Problem
	Chapter 25 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

                  "The Oligopoly Watch", Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2002

	Chapter 26 Technology, R&D, and Efficiency
	"Free Degrees to Fly", Feb. 24, 2005, "Globalisation", Economist Magazine
	Chapter 27 The Demand for Resources.
	Chapter 27 Summary Power Point
	Chapter 27 In Class Sample Quiz

	Chapter 28 Wage Determination
	Chapter 28 Power Point
	Chapter 28 One Page Summary on Wage Determination
	2000 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates Wisconsin
	Chapter 29 Rent, Interest, and Profit
	Chapter 30 Government and Market Failure
	Chapter 30 Power Point
	Chapter 32 Antitrust Policy and Regulation
	Chapter 32 Power Point Summary
	Chapter 32 Practice Quiz with answers. (pfd format).

	Chapter 34 Income Inequality and Poverty
	Chapter 34 Power Point
	2003 POVERTY HIGHLIGHTS
	Chapter 36 The Economics of Health Care
	Chapter 37 International Trade
	Chapter 37 Power Point
	Answers to Key Questions on the Internet or in the back of the Study Guide

               Subject

·             Price Elasticity

·             Marginal Utility of Product x and y.

·             Law of Diminishing Returns

·             Pure Competition

·             Pure Monopoly

·           Monopolistic Competition

·             Technology, R & D, & Efficiency

·              The Demand for Resources

·              Monopsony Model

·            Rent, Interest, & Profit

·           Government & Market Failures

·        Essay :   Antitrust Policy and Regulation  &  Income, Inequality, & Poverty

     Essay: International Trade

 

 

Good for Five points added your final exam grade by going to this site:  http://www.ProhibitionCosts.org And write at least a one page economic position statement on: “Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States” by Jeffery Miron, Professor of Economics, Boston University, dated December 2004.  This is due on the day of the final exam.