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CHAPTER 2: Thinking like an Economist



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IN THE NEWS: Super Bowl Economics
Read the News Article and answer the following questions.
 

 1. 

How might a football coach use economics to improve his game?
 
 
IN THE NEWS: Why You Should Study Economics
Read the News Article and answer the following questions.
 

 2. 

Write an anecdote to describe how the majority of voters are likely to respond to a promise by government to spend several millions of dollars on a new job creation program during a recession. Use the “broken window fallacy” approach for a program that pays unemployed people to clean garbage along the roadsides.
 

 3. 

For your anecdote in question 1, now explain how an economics major is likely to respond to the announcement about the new program.
 



 
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