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Welcome to Principles of Microeconomics Fall 2014. Name that Economist. This guy is formerly very important. Now she’s very important. 4. This guy’s pretty cool. Economics Gets People to Places – Some Past Economics Majors. Business leaders: Warren Buffett - CEO, Berkshire Hathaway - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Welcome to Principles of Microeconomics
Fall 2014
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Name that Economist
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This guy is formerly very important.
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Now she’s very important....
This guy’s pretty cool.
Economics Gets People to Places – Some Past Economics Majors
Business leaders:Warren Buffett - CEO, Berkshire HathawayDonald Trump – Real estate/TV mogulSam Walton – Founder, Wal-MartMeg Whitman – CEO, EbaySteve Ballmer – CEO, Microsoft
Heads of state:George H. W. Bush – US presidentGerald Ford – US presidentRonald Reagan – US presidentStephen Harper – Prime minister, CanadaManmohan Singh – Prime minister, India
Public officials: Sandra Day O’Connor – Supreme Court justiceArnold Schwarzenegger – Governor/PhilandererBarbara Boxer – US SenatorBen Bernanke – Chairman, US Federal ReserveJanet Yellen – Chairwoman, US Federal ReserveKofi Annan – UN secretary General
Entertainers, athletes, and others:Cate Blanchett – ActressMick Jagger – SingerYoung MC – SingerLionel Richie - SingerBernie Kosar – NFL quarterbackTiger Woods – Golfer/PhilandererMuhammad Yunus – Nobel Peace Prize winner
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My girls
Why should you finish your degree?
What about the impact of the Great Recession?
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Your major also matters.• If you want a really high paying job you should
major in….
• …engineering.
• If you want a high paying job in business or social sciences you should major in….
• http://chronicle.com/article/Median-Earnings-by-Major-and/127604/
• If you want a really high paying job you should major in….
• …engineering.
• If you want a high paying job in business or social sciences you should major in…
• If you want a really high paying job you should major in….
• …engineering.
• If you want a high paying job in business or social sciences you should major in….
Put another way - ROI?
• Study by Barrow and Rouse:
• “Lifetime incomes of college grads in today's dollars average nearly $300,000 more than high school graduates over a 40-year career. And that's the net benefit, after deducting an average cost of more than $100,000 in tuition, room and board and potential income lost while attending college.”
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Why you should come to class, economically speaking.
• Tuition and fees is $8087 for an in-state student. For a student taking 5 classes per semester, this class costs $809.
• There are 29 scheduled classes, so each class costs an average of $27.88.
• For a college graduate, the estimated gross returns are $4.00 for every $1.00 spent on education.
• If you graduate, each class would be worth an average of $111.54 in additional gross lifetime income ($83.66 net)!
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For you specifically
• What about YSU?
• http://collegerealitycheck.com/en/colleges/compare/
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Scarlett Marie Wants You…
• …to do well in this class!
The key to Success in this class:
• Practice
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Attendance is not required?Attendance and Grade Distribution
ATTENDANCEGRADE
N Students A B C D F
0-1 6 0 0 0 1 5
2 8 0 0 1 4 3
3 15 1 2 4 5 3
4 26 3 6 8 7 2
5 39 12 8 13 5 3
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Your First (of many) Graphs
Use S.I.
The more you go to SI....
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Read – and use - the book
• More of this
• Less of this
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- Study. Spend time reviewing the material outside of class.
- Put effort into assignments and prepare for quizzes.
- Review questions on the quizzes, especially the ones you get wrong.
- Do the study guide practice problems that are posted on the class website.
- Come see me in my office or email me questions.
- Use the Grad Student tutors (hours to follow).- Think positive!