Week 10 Assignment: Using the Ten Principles to Analyze a
Challenging Economic Issue
Due Week 10 Worth 160 points
Throughout the course, you have been provided with videos
and articles in This Week in Business News. Pick one of these articles/videos
which deals with an economic challenge that interests you. It should be an
article/video from which you learned the most, from which you got an insight
that changed your mind, or with which you disagree.
Prepare a paper on this article/video in which you explain
why you chose it. What made this issue important to you?
Then identify which of the Ten Principles this article
relies on. Does this article/video reject any or all of the Ten Principles?
In your analysis of the article/video and the Ten
Principles, be sure to rely on at least two high-quality professional or
academic articles on the same issue.
This paper must include:
· Your introduction, summary and understanding of the
initial article/video
· A short discussion of your research and conclusions you
were able to draw from it.
· An explanation of what you learned and how you will use
this new understanding.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Write an introduction for your paper explaining what the
topic is, why the topic in the article/video is important to you, and why you
think others should try to understand it.
2. Write at least one paragraph summarizing the key points
made in the article/video.
3. Identify and explain how Mankiw’s 10 Principles are
foundational to the issues discussed in the article/video.
