Economics 17.2.2023
Create a concept Map with the following content
1) What is climate change?
2) What are the consequences of climate change?
3) What do humans have to do with climate change?
4) How does the world look like in 2100?
5) What can be done in general and especially by me?
https://orf.at/newsroom/segment/15363688
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTmYQqml6eqkE-BKxBd-Ku_EWzuiTr7F/view
Select a country and find at least 30 schools preferably near rivers or lakes ... or seaside
Write a motivating email to the headmasters of the schools based on W. Holzheus mail from spring 2023.
Austria
Germany
Slovenia
Croatia
Slovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Poland
Serbia
Greece
Blogs:
Nobel Price Laureate Paul Krugman: NY Times, Robert Shiller,...
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
Nobel Price Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others: Project Syndicate
https://www.project-syndicate.org/section/economics
Critical Cambridge Economist: Ha Joon Chang in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hajoonchang
50 things that made the modern Economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gv#play
https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/comparative-advantage/
Online Economics Books
https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/de/text/0-3-contents.html
Right and Left side of Economics
Neo liberal think tank: Mises Org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_8H7E3cTo
Weekly American radical economist Richard Wolff
https://economicupdate.podbean.com
Ron Paul (Tea Party vs. Paul Krugman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgzx88RgEw
Newspaper & Magazins:
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development
The local: Austrian news in English
Business and Economic New Channel Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/europe
The Economist
The Economics Book in different languages
https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/index.html
Austrian News
Die Presse/Economist
https://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/index.do
Der Standard/Wirtschaft
https://derstandard.at/Wirtschaft
Der Kurier/ Wirtschaft
Businessart
http://www.businessart.at/wohlstand-fuer-alle-utopie-oder-theoretisch-moeglich
AA Entwirf ein Marktmodell für ein Produkt eigener Wahl..., Triff Annahmen.
https://www.modu-learn.de/verstehen/vwl/preis-mengen-diagramm/
Arbeitsaufgabe in Teams zu volkswirtschaftlichen Modellen:
1) Entwirf ein Marktmodell für ein Produkt eigener Wahl, Triff Annahmen. Achtet darauf, dass jede(r) ein anderes Produkt wählt.
2) Beantwortet bei Aufgabe 4 a, b, und d
Teams
AA: Finde einen Artikel zur Inflation in Österreich und fasse ihn zusammen.
How die EA become a dominant firm in the Game Development Market?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#Beteiligungen_und_Übernahmen
Examples for Oligopolies
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-some-current-examples-oligopolies.asp
film analysis: inside job
Business Cycle, Measurement, Economic Crises, unemployment, business cycle Policies, Supply Side Economics, Demand Side Economics (Keynesian Economics)
Future Trends as a basis for future cycles
https://www.trendsderzukunft.de
Macro Economics & Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYFYla1H7KE&index=5&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF
Business Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUo82ZCo5s
Find out about Keynesianism Economics (Demand Side Economics) and Supply side economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvjh1dxz08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKGtmzLP8gw
Online Game
Chose 1 crises and make 1-2 page description of the respective crises. In addition make a short comparison to the corona crises. Where are similarities, where are differences?
Occupation and earnings, trade unions, labour markets, unemployment, how to fight unemployment,
Social Policies: Health insurance, ...
Blog Entry on: David Card & Alan Krueger: Minimum wages, Monopsony; Angus Deaton: measuring consumption and poverty, Joseph Stiglitz Cost of inequality, Piketty: economics of inequality, Capitalism TV: Why Income inequality is a good thing, Milton Friedman: equality and poverty ...
Pecunia non olet
https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/650626/Pecunia-non-olet-Zur-Geschichte-des-Geldes
Global Financial Crises 10 years after, what happened, Financialisation, lessons learned and evaluation
AA Fragenentwicklung:
Jeder überlegt 3 Fragen der mindestens 3 folgenden Episoden...
...
Abgabe auf Teams
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/austria/de/jugend/school/euroscola.html
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik
https://oegfe.at/?cn-reloaded=1
Amstimmungsmonitoring
https://www.oegfe.at/category/abstimmungsmonitoring/
European Council sets the directions and priorities.
It does not negotiate or adopt EU laws.
It is made up from the heads of states or government from each EU country.
It meets at least 4 times a year.
Meetings are chaired by the president of the European Council, selected every 2,5 years (currently: Donald Tusk).
Council of the European Union: negotiates and adopts EU legislation together with the EU Parliament.
It is made up from national ministers grouped together by policy area (national education ministers, finance ministers)
It develops and adopts policies, concludes agreements and budgets.
Presidency rotates among the member states every 6 month
Council of Europe in Strasbourg is not an EU institution.
It consists of 48 member states including the 27 EU states.
This is the continents leading human rights organisation.
Europe Task 1: In Group of 2 create a Video (PPT as MP4) on the following subjects:
Module 1: History of the EU, How and why did the European Union come into being?What were and are important goals of the EU? ... Podcast Stiefel Hürdenreiches Europa
Module 2: You and the EU - impact on your life: Which issues is the EU responsible for and which is it not?In which areas does the EU have an influence on your everyday life?
Module 3: How does the EU work? What are the most important institutions of the EU?How is a European law created?
Module 4: Austria and the EU: How is Austria represented in the European institutions?What Austrian institutions are there with information on the EU?
Module 5: European values: What values unite the European Member States?What is the importance of human rights in the EU?
Module 6: Your voice in Europe: How can you get involved if you want to help shape the EU?What do you need to know for the next European elections?
Potential topics for Blog entry (include also Economic Theory):
1) Write down the key aspects of Keynesian Theory.
Translate 1 paragraph of the "Economic Consequences of the peace" in the pdf below.
2) Create a short presentation about the theory of a Nobel laureate of your choice.