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Basic Information
Reading Material
Purchase a student subscription to the Wall Street Journal. You may purchase an 8-week subscription. In addition to the readings listed below, I expect you to read the editorial pages (the last three pages of section A) every day.
Summary: At the start of each new article, I will randomly select one student to summarize each article. The selected student will take five to ten minutes to present a detailed summary of the article. The student should not provide his own thoughts at this time. The student may, where appropriate, provide background information or data that he feels is relevant to the article and helpful in providing context to his summary. Because students will be selected at random, it is possible that you may never be called to provide a summary. It is also possible that you may be called more than once to provide a summary. Without incurring penalty, you may decline to provide summary no more than twice during the course. For each summary, you will receive a score of 0, 1, or 2 points.
Discussion: Following the summary, students will engage in moderated discussion. Students I will keep track of who contributes meaningfully. Students’ grades for classroom discussion will be based on the quantity and quality of their contributions. Students should feel free to express their opinions. I will neither add points for opinions with which I agree nor deduct points for opinions with which I disagree. My criteria for judging your opinions are: the clarity with which you express them, the quality of the thought reflected in them, and the quantity of verifiable information underlying them. For each substantive comment, you will receive a score of 1 point.
Readings
Readings for 6/30 Dissecting the Real Cost of ObamaCare, The Uninsured, Why Taxes Are Bad, Why Prices Are Good, The Power of Incentives, Christianity and Capitalism, The Pope and Ben Bernanke, Building a Holy Economy, Social Security, Is a Roth IRA Safe from Taxes, Born of a Panic
Readings for 6/23 Black Barbie, Profit Maker: Friend or Foe, Something Besides Money Growth Causes Inflation?, Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen, What Really Makes an American Car?, Korean Grocer Learns the Law Doesn’t Care About His Good Deeds, Graduates Take Heed
Readings for 6/16 A New Age of Monopolies, The Truth About the Deficit, The Uninsured, Abuse of Power, Dissecting the Real Cost of ObamaCare, Paul Ryan vs. the President, Washington’s Deficit of Trust, When It’s OK to Walk Away From Your Home, How Many Uninsured People Need Help, Senator Bunning’s Universe
Readings for 6/9 The Pope and Ben Bernanke, Who Should Control the Money Supply, Born of a Panic, Is There a Better Money, The Power of Incentives, Telling Right from Wrong, Why Taxes Are Bad, Why Prices Are Good, I Pencil, A Market in the Image of the Creator, The Good News, The Fundamentals of Trade (audio)
Readings for 5/26 Welfare States, Europe’s Conservatism, The Future of Decadent Europe, German Labor Policy, Paid Vacation Policies, Single Market Blues, Which Model of Capitalism, Christianity and Capitalism, Social Security, Public Education: Accountability and Adaptation
Readings for 5/19 Family Photos, Wikipedia on Poverty, Wikipedia on Aid, Breathing Life Into Dead Capital, The Cost of Doing Business, Building a Holy Economy, Microfinance Boosts the Poor, Microfinance: Services the Poor Can Bank On, For Global Investors, Microfinance Pays Off, Social Gains from Globalization
Readings for 5/12 Buy American, Encyclical, World Bank 1, Stiglitz, Summit, Disaster, World Bank 2, The IMF, IMF at a Glance
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