The paper
- Economic issue
- Why is it an economic problem?
- Where is the trade off?
- Make it clear in introduction
- Social importance
- Why important?
- What part of society affected?
- Economic principles (Mankiw principles: opportunity cost, marginal reasoning)
- The body of your essay has to be guided using economic principles.
- Use economic principles to argue the point.
- Diagrams are a plus but not mandatory
- Conclusion: summary of main argument
- Sources
- 5 academic sources
- journal articles (American economic review, quarterly journal of economics, rand journal of economic)
- text books
- articles published by economists
- use citations properly (consistent)
- 5 academic sources
- Clarity
- grammar, spelling
- argumentative
- avoid subjective sentences
requirement: 5-7 pages, citation,