ECN201
Assignment: Government

You are to answer one of the following questions. 

1. You are to read the Introduction & Overview sections of Heller's "Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges" and describe what the author 'warns" you about the future - and how is related to what we have talked about this semester?

2. You are to read two very short articles MacGuineas’ Radical tax reform” (Sakai Online Readings) Banyon’s “The fuel subsidy we need” (Sakai Online Readings) and write a brief summary of what these authors proposed for government policy.  What were the problems they saw, what were the solutions, and how were their solutions tied to the economic way of thinking?

3. You are to read two very short articles, Kornbluh's "The Parent Trap" (Sakai Online Readings) and Boshara's "The $6,000 Solution" (Sakai Online Readings) and write a brief summary of what these authors proposed for government policy.  What were the problems they saw, what were the solutions, and how were their solutions tied to the economic way of thinking?