AT Micro/Macro Economics

Self-Assessing Your Own Harkness Participation  Students are encouraged to self-assess their daily verbal class participation during Harkness discussions using the guide below. The characteristics of high-quality Harkness participation:  A. Use of textual evidence aimed at the question  B. Listen to each other C. Ask each other questions D. Participatory, non-dominating, and non-interrupting  E. Link thoughts together to build clear themes, even when different interpretations emerge  SELF-ASSESSMENT My level of participation during the 4 classes held this week should be rated as:  A. Participates daily  B. Participates regularly  C. Participates sporadically D. Participates rarely, if ever, but does not distract from discussions F. Participates rarely, if ever, and also distracts others from discussions  Special note: Deductions will be taken for dominating, interrupting, uncivil, or distracting parti...

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1. Please describe the culture at Amazon. How would you assess it? 2. Please draw and describe the Production Possibility  Curve, citing all the different concepts it represents.  How has this curve influenced your view of free trade? 3. What are markets and how do they operate? What role do you think government should play in them? 4. Should you allow people to buy $16.00 doggie birthday cakes if people are straying in the streets? If you should, why should you?  5. Is Adam Smith always right that if we all pursue our own self interest, we will always have the optimal social outcome?