Gabrielle Kashani

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• Current Event Assignment
• Differentiated Grading
• 2013 Speaker Series
• Macro Review Questions. Use in addition to Review Sheet.
• Economics Course Syllabus 2012/13
• Classroom News

• Financial Crisis

  • All Boarded Up: Cleveland and the Foreclsure Crisis by Reuben Cox .
  • Can't Grasp the Economic Crisis? Join the Club. by David Leonhardt
  • Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
  • Credit Default Swaps explained! Watch #1 and #2
  • Larry Summers defends himself!
  • Overview of the Financial Crisis
  • Paul Krugman Article How Did Economists Get It So Wrong
  • Questions for Myron Scholes Crash Course
  • Risk Mismanagement by Joe Nocera
  • Two Financial Crises Compared: The Savings and Loan Debacle and the Mortgage Mess
  • What Does Wall Street Do For You?
  • Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

• Global

  • A Strong Dollar Isn’t Always a Good Thing
  • Childless Europe
  • Commentary on Microfinance
  • Dominican Republic Factory that pays a living wage Read it!
  • Update on Microfinance and Yunus

• Law and Society

  • L&S Sample CE Reading for 8/28

• Macroeconomics

  • A Breif history of the Federal Reserve
  • A Family’s Billions, Artfully Sheltered
  • Census Data graph from NYT
  • G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class
  • I Can Afford Higher Taxes. but They'll Make Me Work Less.
  • Is Junk Food really cheaper
  • Link to Tax Table 7 Annual Payroll period for 2013
  • Macro review terms from the NY times teen magazine
  • Middle Class Equation
  • New Rules by Thomas Friedman
  • Rolling Stone Article on Taxes
  • Stop Coddling the Super-Rich by Warren Buffett 8/14/2011
  • The Buffett Rule is Just a Start 4/16/12
  • The education of Ben Bernanke by Rogerm Lowenstein 1/20/08
  • The Factory Field Trip by Joe Nocera 9/27/11
  • The Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the “Fed”, is the central bank of the United States.
  • Who wears the pants in this economy?

• Recommended Resources

  • Barbara Ehrenreich gives an update on Caroline- the “real Deal” in June 2009
  • Mapping the Nation’s Well-Being
  • Natural Born Drillers
  • Recount: 10 years later some look back
  • Update on Flint
  • Wait. So People Are Cooking?

• Unit 1

  • Paul Krugman Article How Did Economists Get It So Wrong

• Unit 1: Micro

  • Demand Explained
  • Gas Price Disparity Seems Here to Stay
  • In a Shift, Cubans Savor Working for Themselves By VICTORIA BURNE
  • Lesson on Supply
  • Life at the Pump by Lisa Margonelli
  • Self Quiz on S/D

• URBANPLAN

  • Berkeley at a Crossroads- great resource for UP
  • Is Environmental Law re: Land Use really helping the Environment?
  • You're not an environmentalist if you are also a NIMBY.

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