Showing posts with label New course. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New course. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Hyper Hybrid


Melisa did not seem to like the "super hybrid" name and coined the following term "Hyper Hybrids."

Monday, January 15, 2007

Small business Class

I need to think about a class for students who wish to start a small business. Step out of the theoretical and into the practical. Would students sign up for such a class or is it more of a community education class.

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship /

http://www3.babson.edu/eship/

kauffman Foundation

Economics of contemporary issues

This would be an interesting class to teach. I have linked this posting to a possible textbook for such a class.
1. Economic Growth: An Introduction to Scarcity and Choice.
2. An Introduction to Economic Systems and the Workings of the Price System.
3. Competitive Markets and Government Policy: Agriculture.
4. Efficiency in Resource Allocation: How Much Do We Have? How Much Do We Want?
5. Market Power: Does It Help or Hurt the Economy?
6. Air Pollution: Balancing Benefits and Costs.
7. Health Care: How Much? For Whom?
8. Crime and Drugs: A Modern Dilemma.
9. College Education: Is It Worth the Cost?
10. Educational Reform: The Role of Incentives and Choice.
11. Poverty: New Approaches to An Old Problem.
12. Tracking and Explaining the Macroeconomy.
13. Unemployment: The Legacy of Recession, Technological Change, and Free Choice.
14. Inflation: A Monetary Phenomenon.
15. Sustained Budget Deficits: Is This Any Way to Run a Government?
16. Social Security: Leading Issues and Approaches to Reform.
17. International Trade: Beneficial, but Controversial.
18. Financing Trade and the Trade Deficit.