ECON200 Economics: Policy Frameworks and Markets

Question:

Choose and critically analyse a recent article related to ethical values and human dignity in economic decisions.

Examples include: The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry; Brexit.

You will find such articles in daily newspapers as well as in more dedicated economic/business journals such as The Economist magazine. Factiva, an electronic database system available through the ACU Library also allows you to search for newspaper articles on specific topics.

Please Note - your economics article must have been published in 2019 or 2020.

Requirements:

The article analysis is comprised of a written paper of no more than 1500 words.

In preparing your economics article critique you should:

1. Provide a brief discussion of the article and point out the three most important issues contained within the article. Do not simply summarise.
   
   
2. Point out the underlying ethical concepts which are relevant to the article.
   
   
3. Point out the underlying economic concepts which are relevant to the article.
   
   
4. Provide a critique if the article contains economic discrepancies/ ignores important economic policy problems or issues, or is inconsistent with economic theory.
   
   
5. The article should be properly referenced at the end of the paper and include a copy of or a link to the article.