The full impact of knee replacement surgery on both patients' lives and on society includes significant overall cost savings, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). Researchers found that for the average patient undergoing knee replacement surgery...
I want to write about something that's interesting. I was thinking of writing about the private market for human organs. I want to know if anyone knows any other interesting topics to write about for my research paper. Again, its for my economics class. It doesn't matter if it's a micro or macro...
I'm looking for a book like Freakonomics or The Armchair Economist, but by a Australian author about the Australian economy, written in an entertaining way for a lay audience.
I understand it may not exist, so any suggestions for an introductory Australian economics textbook would be appreciated.
Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the Nobel Prize for economics for their work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Sample their work here.
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1. Suppose the demand curve for pizza can be represented by the equation:
QD = 20 - 2P,
where QD is the quantity demanded and P is the price.
The supply curve for pizza can be represented by the equation
QS = P - 1,
where QS is the quantity supplied.
The initial equilibrium price of pizza is $...
...know nothing of economics, so here's? your chance to prove what you know.
Here's five questions on basic economics. I just put these together off the top of my head. Anyone who claims to know about Economics should be able to ask all five questions effortlessly.
Here you go folks...
As the nation seeks to expand health care coverage to more citizens without adding burdensome costs, researchers from Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) reported that preventative health care may be significantly less costly than previously thought, due...
same as Economics Today? I'm trying sell my girlfriend's book When I type in ISBN # Economics Today comes up but her book is Economic Today macro view and micro view. They both have different covers but hers shows a picture of Economics Today on the front of the cover.
When given data to make a PPF or CPF, and you want to know the comparative advantage, how do you know which number goes on top to divide. I.e. when you want to know what the opportunity costs are. Im confused between output and input data.
AKA something that's not a conservative, free-markets-fix-everything rant, nor a liberal rant of some sort. Admittedly, I'm finding more of the former than the latter looking thus far.
Japan can produce either 80 cars, or 16 planes. Korea can produce either 48 cars, or 16 planes. Japan's opportunity cost for 1 plane is 5 cars, Korea's opportunity cost for 1 plane is 3 cars.
Both countries would benefit from trade if 1 airplane was traded from Korea to Japan for between __...
firm, considered a $5.74 million)? In 2007, Bell Mobility Inc., a publically owned firm, considered a $5.74 million order with Telefon AB LM Ericsson of Sweden for one of its existing networks. Make the following assumptions: the $5.74 million investment would have been completed in 2008. (All...