Guidelines
for paper Econ 5
DUE:
5/5/2008
LENGTH
2-3 pages,
double spaced, (10 or 12 font)
Please
prepare your paper in the form of a policy brief. Write the brief as if you were addressing a policy
maker, and informing him or her about a particular issue. In your paper:
You
may choose from the following four topics, and should use ALL the readings
listed below (although if you have other material you are also welcome to
reference it as well):
1. Globalization.
a. Chapter Three of UNDP Human Development Report, 1999
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/1999/en/pdf/hdr_1999_ch3.pdf (assigned for class)
b. UN, Overview of UNDP Human Development Report, 1998, "Changing today's consumption patterns - for tomorrow's human development"
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1998_overview.pdf (assigned for class)
c. “Know-Nothings And Know-It-Alls - What's Wrong With The Hype About Globalization,” by Jessica Collins and John Miller
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2000/0900collins.html
d. Genetic Engineering and the Privitization of Seeds by Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2001/0301mittal.html (assigned for class)
e. Cigarettes - Global Value Chains
http://www.duke.edu/web/soc142/team11/globalvaluechain.htm (assigned for class)
f. Global Media
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1406
g. Stiglitz articles (see my web page for links)
h. Alternatives to Corporate Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/programs/alternatives.htm
2. Economics of Sports
a. Supply and Demand: An Economist Goes to the Superbowl, by Alan Krueger
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/review/2001_6/22-29.pdf
b. Sports, Jobs, & Taxes: Are New Stadiums Worth the Cost? by Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist http://www.brook.edu/press/review/summer97/noll.htm
c. Public Teams, Private Profits, by
D.
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2000/0300eitzen.html
d.Teen Herbicide, By Chris Mooney, Mother Jones, May/June 2003
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/05/ma_378_01.html
e. The Puzzling Economics of Sports, by Allen R. Sanderson
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/Sandersonsports.html
a. Don’t Legalize Drugs, by Theodore Dalrymple
http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_2_a1.html
b. Drug Control or Biowarfare? By Sharon Stevenson and Jeremy Bigwood, Mother Jones, May 2000.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/05/coca.html
c. Drug Legalization? Time for Real Debate, by Paul Stares
http://www.brookings.edu/press/review/spring96/stares.htm
d.The Fumigation Programme of Plan Colombia, by the Transnational Institute
http://www.tni.org/drugscolombia-docs/plan-e.htm
e. USA: Critics Detail Risks of
Colombian Coca Spraying, by Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4229
f. Teen Herbicide, By Chris Mooney, Mother Jones, May/June 2003
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/05/ma_378_01.html
4. The Environment
a. Behind Gold's Glitter (see class web page for link)
b. e. USA: Critics Detail Risks of Colombian Coca Spraying, by Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4229
c. Gas tax now!
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/may99.html
d. NJPP Reports on Gas tax
http://www.njpp.org/rpt_gastax.html
e. UN data on the environment
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/qindicators.htm
f.Sierra Club, "Drilling For Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Won't Address National Security or Consumer Needs," http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlands/arctic/oilfactsheet.asp
g. Chapter Six of UNDP Human Development Report, 2003
http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/pdf/hdr03_chapter_6.pdf
h. Denmark Shows the Way, by Laurie Dougherty http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/1997/0597dougherty.html