Rechnungswesen,
Betriebswirtschaft
und Volkswirtschaft- echt scharf!
4hfa - Project: SDG's / MINT / Burgenland
1) Choose 1 Global Goal (use the agenda of Burgenland) and write a report on the status:
2) Use Mathematics, IT, Natural Science or Technology to develop your own idea how to improve...
3) Create a Video, Audio, Picture, ... to present your idea
4) Register on the mint-girls Plattform
5) Publish your idea on a public plattform e.g. Youtube,...
6) Hand in your idea on the mint-platform by June 15th
https://www.burgenland.at/themen/nachhaltigkeit/agenda-2030/17-nachhaltigkeitsziele/
Introduction
Economic Games
Economics in the news:
Blogs:
Nobel Price Laureate Paul Krugman: NY Times, Robert Shiller,...
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
Nobel Price Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others: Project Syndicate
https://www.project-syndicate.org/section/economics
Critical Cambridge Economist: Ha Joon Chang in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hajoonchang
50 things that made the modern Economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gv#play
https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/comparative-advantage/
Right and Left side of Economics
Neo liberal think tank: Mises Org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_8H7E3cTo
Weekly American radical economist Richard Wolff
https://economicupdate.podbean.com
Ron Paul (Tea Party vs. Paul Krugman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgzx88RgEw
Newspaper & Magazins:
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development
The local: Austrian news in English
Business and Economic New Channel Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/europe
The Economist
The Economics Book
http://www.btng.education/uploads/9/3/9/2/9392622/economics.pdf
Austrian News
Die Presse/Economist
https://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/index.do
Der Standard/Wirtschaft
https://derstandard.at/Wirtschaft
Der Kurier/ Wirtschaft
Businessart
http://www.businessart.at/wohlstand-fuer-alle-utopie-oder-theoretisch-moeglich
00 Introduction
Learning activity 1: Robinsons
Learning activity 2: Vocab session: Introcution
Learning activity 3 Team teaching: What do we know already about economics?
Learning activity 4: Concept Maps: Introduction
Game based learning:
https://www.playfactile.com/mygames
https://www.reviewecon.com/games-activities/business-cycle1
Corona and the economy
M. Widmer: Coronavirus - its economic impact (4hrd 2019-20, Bergheidengasse)
S. Görlich: The Corona Virus - facts (4hrd 2019-20, Bergheidengasse)
Choose one of the Economists analysis on Corona and make a blog entry on your website. Don't forget to quote the Economist:
What do we need to know on the 2nd wave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOY32cU0ePc
How Covid could change the financial world order?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfKfSUqn_GY
What happens to the global economy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnKsrKuUfBc&t=63s
How Covid will change the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsArdIXgRTU
Stockmarket vs the economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TImic4N1ko
Understanding the economic shock of Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2IfGPSqO0
Why travel may never be the same again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAs0gw1zIuQ
Why vaccine mistrust is growing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EK4VRmG3yM
Why is Americas death toll so high?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLop-jR8cw
Will Covid kill globalization?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJhlo6DtJIk
Bill Gates is predicting the end of pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjt9EoWhcg
What has president Trump done to America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCcyhn4RDVk
What a Biden victory could mean to America?
What is climate change and what can i do?
A good day has 100 Points
01 Basic1:
key words: needs, wants, micro, macro, scarcity, Production possibility curve, opportunity cost, min. max Principle, circular flow model and its conflicts
Circular Flow Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wM0jHL6TQs&list=PLKcwEC4jDwiOt_ar5QlCE2MtfFTHkkzgg&index=6&t=0s
Production Possibility Curve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XL__2CDPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4G5IPpzFY&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF&index=3
Online Game PPF
https://www.reviewecon.com/games-activities/production-possibilities
02 Basic 2:
key words: key measures: GDP, issues with gdp inequality, inflation, unemployement rate, Gini Coefficient, sustainability, other measures
Growth of the Economy: GDP, rate of Unemployment, rate of Inflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTgniuxA50&index=6&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF
Bob Kennedy on GDP Issues: environment, sustainability,...
03 Economic Systems:
AA: Choose one Economic System and make a short description by 17.6.2020:
What is justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0CTHVCkm90
Types of Economic Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xgwYRX19VU
Nixon und Khrushchev at the American Fair in Moscow 1959
04 Market 1
Supply Curve, Demand curve, Market Model, Assumptions, shifts of curves, shifts on curves
Indiana Jones and the market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0j3Lnlazs&index=4&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF
MR University: Demand curve, consumer surplus, shifts, supply curve, producer surplus, shifts,Market Equilibrium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=outYDTq-jPc
05 Market 2
How die EA become a dominant firm in the Game Development Market?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#Beteiligungen_und_Übernahmen
Examples for Oligopolies
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-some-current-examples-oligopolies.asp
Elasticity, market forms, Monopols, Market failure, competition law, EU national, cartels
Elasticity & Inelasticy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcblIxiAAk
Market forms & Market failure: negative externalities, oligopolists, lemons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjFDtH-iZM&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMq059SAQXM&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEwRUmMRYsI
06 Business Cycles and Financial/Economic crises
Business Cycle, Measurement, Economic Crises, unemployment, business cycle Policies, Supply Side Economics, Demand Side Economics (Keynesian Economics)
Future Trends as a basis for future cycles
https://www.trendsderzukunft.de
Macro Economics & Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYFYla1H7KE&index=5&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF
Business Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUo82ZCo5s
Find out about Keynesianism Economics (Demand Side Economics) and Supply side economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvjh1dxz08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKGtmzLP8gw
Online Game
Casestudies: Crisis of Capitalism (VLC player,...)
Chose 1 crises and make 1-2 page description of the respective crises. In addition make a short comparison to the corona crises. Where are similarities, where are differences?
1929 The great depression US and Europe/Austria
1638 Tulip crisis Netherlands
1970 - 1990 ... Deregulation of international Financial Markets / East Asia
2008 ... Global financial crisis 2008 and debts of US households
07 Employment, labor market, social policies
Occupation and earnings, trade unions, labour markets, unemployment, how to fight unemployment,
Social Policies: Health insurance, ...
Global Financial Crises 10 years after, what happened, Financialisation, lessons learned and evaluation
09 Money
Development, Institutions, Euro, ECB, Monetary Policy, inflation, deflation
Topics for blog entry on money:
- Can we "Wörgl" our way out of this?
- How can "Schwundgeld" be used at Bergheidengasse?
- History of money...
- Cashless societies?
- ECB policies ... Inflation in 2021... what about deflation?
- any other topic on money...
10 Role of government, Tax, Budget
Budget, Tax System, Economic policy: government, Macro objectives, demand side, supply side,
11 Europe
Europe: Development, since 1960, Institutions, Policies, Future of Europe
State of the Union: Juncker September 2018
European Parliament
The European Council and the Council of the European Union
European Council sets the directions and priorities.
It does not negotiate or adopt EU laws.
It is made up from the heads of states or government from each EU country.
It meets at least 4 times a year.
Meetings are chaired by the president of the European Council, selected every 2,5 years (currently: Donald Tusk).
Council of the European Union: negotiates and adopts EU legislation together with the EU Parliament.
It is made up from national ministers grouped together by policy area (national education ministers, finance ministers)
It develops and adopts policies, concludes agreements and budgets.
Presidency rotates among the member states every 6 month
Council of Europe in Strasbourg is not an EU institution.
It consists of 48 member states including the 27 EU states.
This is the continents leading human rights organisation.
European Commission: The government of Europe
How does the EU pass new laws?
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik
12 International Economics, Globalisation, ...
a) Globalisations, +/-, international organisations (WTO,...), trade
b) development countries, developed countries
c) balance of payment and international trade, trade wars
Atlas der Globalisierung: Trade and globalisation
What is comparative advantage?
Globalisation
Tarifs & Protectionism
Arguments against international trade
History of economic thought
International Trade & Economic development
AA: Watch the videos below and write a short paper on International Trade & Economic development including:
- What does trade have to do with economic development?
- Explain the reasons, why some countries are Ruch and others not.
- What are the main factors, which influence economic growth?
- Which role play the key global trade organisations (WTO...) and what are the key aspects of fair trade?
- What is Hajoon Changs perspective on free trade?
13 Sustainability
Theories of Economics
Choose a nobel price laureate for Economics and create a portrait on the person and the economic theory...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-prizes-in-economic-sciences/
or any other important economist of your choice...
John Maynard Keynes (alt. BBC Documentation Masters of Money)
Theories of Economics: Karl Marx (alt. BBC Documentation Masters of Money)
Friedrich Hayek (alt. BBC Documentation: Masters of Money)
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics
Economical Theories: Economics is for everyone...
