ADM 614TOPIC 1 DQ 1
The economic way of thinking requires
administrators to incorporate eight principles. One of the principles relates
to “tradeoffs” and another principle relates to “opportunity costs” for scarce
resources. Describe how public administrators must make trade-offs by assessing
opportunity costs relating to scarce resources.
ADM 614 TOPIC 1 DQ 2
Explain how scarcity and poverty are different.
Give examples to support your reasoning.
ADM 614 TOPIC 2 DQ 1
Assess discrepancies between public budgets and
public needs. Explain the relationship between the public budget and the demand
for public goods.
ADM 614 TOPIC 2 DQ 2
Markets and government both allocate scarce
resources. Please explain how government adjusts market outcomes though
subsidies and whether Pareto efficiencies are achieved.
Discuss the role of subsidies in the Affordable Care Act as explained in the
assigned article “How Millionaires Get Obamacare Subsidies Intended to Aid the
Poor” by Managan.
ADM 614 TOPIC 3 DQ 1
Explain the difference between government failure
and market failure. Discuss the role of government in a market economy to
address market failure.
ADM 614 TOPIC 3 DQ 2
Economic efficiency is how economists assess the
desirability of outcomes. Discuss the two requirements for efficiency in a
market economy.
ADM 614 TOPIC 4 DQ 1
Monopolies are good for producers but not
consumers. Differentiate between the positive and negative impacts of
monopolies on the economy. Discuss why or why not monopolies are bad for the
economy?
ADM 614 TOPIC 4 DQ 2
Compare and contrast the three types of
unemployment. Discuss how these three types of unemployment demystify a common
myth that “unemployment would not exist if the economy were operating
efficiently.”
ADM 614 TOPIC 5 DQ 1
Discuss the circular flow of money and income
through the four basic markets of (a) goods and services, (b) resource markets,
(c) loanable fund, and (d) foreign exchange. Identify a key factor related to
the flow of money and income in two of the four identified markets.
ADM 614 TOPIC 5 DQ 2
Max Points: 5.0
Read special Topic 5 (page 610) regarding the
market crisis of 2008. Explain what caused the recession. Discuss how the
economy reacted to the 2008 market crisis and continues to react to its
impacts. Explain how you might prevent this type of problem from reoccurring.
Support your response with research.
ADM 614 TOPIC 6 DQ 1
Explain what a budget deficit is. Describe how
under the Keynesian model budget deficits increase aggregate demand.
ADM 614 TOPIC 6 DQ 2
Evaluate whether or not fiscal stimulus will
increase or decrease economic recovery. Explain
ADM 614 TOPIC 7 DQ 1
Choose an instance from the past 100 years of U.S.
history where a change in the supply of money effected the economy. Explain how
it was affected, including how U.S. monetary policy and the banking system were
affected.
ADM 614 TOPIC 7 DQ 2
As a monetarist, Milton Freidman suggested that the
government should only release the amount of money into the economy that
matches the GDP production. Discuss how the entire demand curve for money will
adjust to the equilibrium point. Would you agree with Milton Freidman’s opinion
on the ability of monetary policy to address economic problems? Explain your
rationale.
ADM 614 TOPIC 8 DQ 1
Discuss what institutions and government policies
promote economic growth. Explain how these institutions incentivize economic
activity.
ADM 614 TOPIC 8 DQ 2
Income transfers were developed as a part of Lyndon
B. Johnson’s war on poverty. Define
income transfers. How should traditional income transfers eliminate incidence
of poverty? Does it work? Explain.
