*Take a few moments to find out about Kiva and Apoyo Integral. Sam Baker, a graduate of Santa Clara University and now a Kiva Fellow working to promote microfinancing in rural El Salvador, will visit CISS on Wednesday, September 2 to add some "real-life perspective" to our economics course.
*Visit Kiva to learn about a website and movement that allows people to choose who and how they support others in need. . .moving away from the models which promote simple charity towards a new concept which helps people help other people help themselves.
*Read Sam's Article, "Mi Casa, Tu Casa: A Kiva Fellow at the Apoyo Intergral Field Partner in El Salvador," about his experience working to combine micro-financing and technical assistance in homebuilding to benefit those living in the Salvadoran countryside or "iPhone Water Pump" about merging technology and grass-roots development.
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First Semester General Topic Outline & Notes Courtesy of CISS Class of 2009
- Macro and Microeconomics & The 3 Big Questions
- Goods & Services
- Facotrs & Products Market, Human Capital
- Demand
- Supply
- Economic Systems
- Monopoly, Oligopoly, Perfect Competition, Monopolistic Competition
- Prices
- Production Possibilities Frontier, Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Productivity, Trade-Offs, Oportunity Cost
- Inflation & Adjustment
- Elasticity
- Price Ceilings & Price Floors
- Free Enterprise
- Marginal Cost & Analysis
- Bonds
- Stocks
- The Stock Exchange
- The Labor Movement
- Wages & Labor Disputes
- Non-profits, Co-ops, Credit Unions, etc.
- Investment Markets
- Multinationals, Conglomerates, & Mergers