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Course Outline: Principles of Microeconomics

Course Title: Principles of Microeconomics Course Description: This course is an introduction to the principles of microeconomics. Students will learn about the economic concepts of supply and demand, market structures, consumer and producer behavior, pricing strategies, and welfare economics. The course will also examine the role of government in regulating markets and the impact of…
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Shatter belts

Modern geopolitics views geography as a set of opportunities and limitations that affect the decision-makers range of options rather than as an unchangeable destiny. This geographical factor, together with the political options chosen, can lead to very different outcomes from region to region. For instance, Cohen (1991) distinguished between “gateways” and “shatter belts.” Gateways are regions…
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Narrative Stories

Economics (and, by extension, finance) has focused too much on quantitative methods and forgotten something important in the process: We humans have evolved to be storytellers. The stories we tell each other bind us together as families, communities, nations, and religions. These narratives define what it means to be a mother, a German, or a…






