what are some good topics for an economy report/?

Answer 1

do not do legalizing marijuana. Your professor has seen this enough to gag.

there is a book called myths of the rich and poor. Use that as an outline and then look at some columns by Sowell

also the effect of how a state, group etc votes and how that affects redistribution to them.

The link between child prostitution and the anti-globalization movement.

How adam smith came up with almost all economic theory today. He just didn't quantify it.

write a report on why when resources are found in developing countries it is a bad thing and a good thing.

How economic theory is used in political science (start with Downs book)

write about real world examples of the prisoner's dilemna.

Answer 2

Use the paper research to learn more about how financial markets work, the relationship between bonds prices, term structure of interest rates, and stock prices. How the regular government reports on employment, inflation, etc effect financial markets. Depending on how long the report needs to be you can look at all or only one part of the question. This is the least controversial part of economics and the most useful in real life.

Answer 3

My old research paper was pretty good.

Statistical valuation of human life

Sounds boring basically its working out how to valuing peoples life when considering to invest in toxic waste clean up or clear air legislation. Or could even work in legalizing pot. For example laws requiring the removal of asbestos have at best saved minimal amounts of life’s and cost about $40 million per life saved but mandatory bike safety helmet wearing (which people are against) is something like $100k per life saved.

If you want to branch out you could go into the murky depth of country comparisons. For example the EPA estimates the value of an American life at about $5 million, by similar measures an Indians life is worth $200k . Should American companies therefore outsource dangerous jobs to India? Your professor probably will have never seen this subject.

You could go into global warming as well and say I cold send £1 million now to save a life but if i spent X on stopping global warming i could save Y in the future. The implications for discounting models are horrific. Begin plugging standard discount rates and value per life saved of $5 million over about 200 years you could be talking about 100 millions of life’s. If you don’t discount life’s over time then you can’t compare apples to apples with money and you end up with not being able to do anything because you hurt future generations.

It goes to the heart of most of the socio/ political fields of economics and can result in some interesting questions and ways of looking at human actions.

As an alternate some university of Chicago professors have look into how effectively piracy and copying are at the heart of the fashion industry and how it is reliant on them. Pretty interesting even if you don’t like fashion.

http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/11/understanding_t.html

Answer 4

My suggestion, how the trial lawyers, labor unions and liberals have taken our country hostage. For example, the lawsuits that have been created by trial lawyers have killed american industry, regulations are out of sight, the unions are in bed with the trial lawyers, this has sent industry overseas, insurance is out of sight. Socialism is alive and well in America today. Free loaders are growing at leaps and bounds all liberal in mentality.
BS International Economics 1987 - Suffolk University, Boston.