Essays and Research Papers on Economics

This 5 page paper discusses three of the concepts Hazlitt puts forth in his classic Economics in One Lesson: the Broken Window fallacy; Blessings of Destruction and Public Works Promotes Taxes. The Blessings of Destruction is an extension of the Broken Windows fallacy. Hazlitt's general theme is that people fail to look beyond the immediate ...

This 5-page paper discusses Adam Smith's theory of division of labor, which states that increased productivity is due to specialization. The paper attempts to interpret the theory and demonstrate whether it is a true theory or not. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

5 pages. Currently the United States is considered to be in its primacy in the world. However, the outlook for the next thirty years might not be so rosy. Because we are not receiving a lot of support for much of our economic policy and our problems with Iraq, it could be ...

This 5 page report discusses the current state of the American economy and Bush Administrations role in it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page paper discussing the role that interest rates play in progress of the economy. Interest rates fill a primary role in determining the path of the economy and the decisions of businesses and investors. The purpose here is to assess some of the ways that interest rates affect the national economy. ...

This 7 page report discusses two schools of economic thinking, their characteristics, and how each relates to competitiveness in the marketplace. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 4-page paper discusses how a company determines readiness to declare bankruptcy for reorganization purposes. The essay touches on some financial models that forecast bankruptcy including the univariate financial ratio and MDA. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5-page paper touches on two economic factors --Economic Value Add and Market Value Add -- and determines how they fit into an accounting format. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A paper which looks at the differences between the political protection of competition, and the global free market, from the perspective that both are attempting to achieve the same aim through different methods.

This 5 page paper critically evaluates the evidence concerning the information efficiency of stock markets in terms of how effectively they reflect information about a company in that company's share price. The paper undertakes this by considering the different forms efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The bibliography cites 8 sources.

This 7 page paper considers the way that one of the largest threats to the global economy may be that of deflation created by over capacity. The paper considers this threat, how it may occur and how effective monetary and fiscal policies may be in controlling and minimising the threat. The bibliography cites 2 sources. ...

This 6 page paper considers the impact that scandals such as Enron and WorldCom and the effect that they had on the stock markets. The paper argues that the impact was not as great as generally argued that the evidence shows the markets were already in decline. This supports the idea that the markets are ...

This 10 page paper examines the difficulties that policy makers may encounter when seeking to manage the economy, The paper concerns issues such as the choice of approach, classical, Keynesian or monetarist, the use of different tools and the impact that the tools, such as interest rates may have, some of which will be ...

This 5-page paper examines the economic theory of supply and demand, and focuses on how this theory has been re-vamped because of agricultural price supports from the U.S. government. The essay also touches on the impact of such price supports on consumers, as well as the impact of the FAIR act (passed in 1996) on ...

This 10 page paper considers the way in which economic factors will reflect on the commercial performance of soccer clubs. The paper focuses on the variables of price, including substitutes and complimentary services and goods, and disposable income will determine the levels of sales of both tickets and goods. The bibliography cites 8 sources. ...

This is a 5 page paper discussing the concepts in Ayn Rand’s “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”. Ayn Rand’s 1962 text “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal” is important in the fields of philosophy and economics in that it introduces the readers, or reminds the readers, what the true essence of capitalism is and not that which has ...

This 6 page paper argues that the cause of the Great depression was the actions of the Federal Reserve and their use of monetary policy before and during the depression. This argument is made with reference to the relevant economic theories as well as historical facts. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

This 5 page paper examined what is meant by price theory and explains how the government has a direct effect as both a regulator of the economy and as a demand factor in the overall market demand. The paper includes 3 graphs to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 6 page paper considers how liquidity is maintained in the UK economy. The paper outlines the way that the financial markets and intermediaries, such as banks and building societies in addition to the Bank of England are key in maintaining liquidity so that the transaction essential to an economy can continue. The paper focuses ...

This 6 page paper considers why economists are so universally antagonistic to monopolies and if there are anything advantages to be said about monopolies. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

This 6 page paper supports the idea that working for a living is harder than it had been in earlier days. Much support is provided by a variety of authors. Unionization is supported as well as corporate responsibility. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 14 page outline of the Bretton Woods System, the implementation of which was considered to be a significant turning point in post-war capitalism. This paper explores the role of the U.S. in the implementation of this system and its administration as well as the consequences of the 1971 U.S. removal of the ...

A 5 page paper explaining to investors why this real estate development company has delayed its scheduled initial public offering. The paper discusses the business cycle; the record low numbers of IPOs in 2002; expected similar patterns in 2003; and improvement in new housing starts over the past 12 months. The bottom line ...

This is a 12 page paper discussing the relevance of the hegemonic stability theory in the age of globalization. The theory of hegemonic stability is relevant in today’s increasing trend of globalization. The many issues involved include largely the existence of American hegemony since the end of the Second World War and more recently since ...

A 16 page paper reviewing this article (Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1995) examining trends in consumption insurance in selected regions of India, Thailand and the Ivory Coast. The author maintains that the availability of better insurance can result in marked improvement in the condition of farmers in developing countries, and that improved financial ...