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An  Accident The road in front of my school is a narrow one. It is also very busy. Every afternoon when school is dismissed the road becomes almost impassable as children, bicycles, cars and buses jostle and struggle to use it. Sometimes a policeman is there to help things out, but generally chaos reigns and we have to be careful not to get involved in an accident.A few accidents had already occurred. I was a witness to one. If happened just after school. As usual the road was an utter mad house. Children were running across the road to get to their cars and buses. Cars and buses honked angrily at them. Just then I saw a young boy make a dash across the road. There was a loud blare of horn, a squeal of brakes and I saw a car knock into the boy. He fell as though his feet were swept from under him. Fortunately the car was not moving very fast and the driver managed to stop the car before a wheel could run over the fallen boy. All traffic stopped. I ran over to the boy and saw blood on the road. He was bleeding from a cut on his head. A man came and examined the boy. Then he lifted the boy and carried him to a car. They sped off, presumably to the hospital. Many people surrounded the driver who looked dazed and bewildered. A policeman came to calm things down. As there was nothing I could do, I turned and walked down the road carefully. It was terrible to witness an accident. I certainly would not like to be involved in one.       jostle   to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them       dazed   very confused, unable to think clearly

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Many topics for you to try. Some of these came from IELTS and other textbooks, others are from websites. You can also see TWE (Test of Written English) topics from the TOEFL exam here.  Use CTRL+F to find keywords or topics from this page in your browser.

Will modern technology such as the internet ever replace the book or the written word as the main source of information?

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1. Damage to the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living. Discuss.
2. Are famous people treated unfairly by the media? Should they be given more privacy, or is the price of their fame an invasion into their private lives?
3. Are our zoos cruel to wild animals?
4. Are women are better parents than men?
5. Are zoos are necessary for education?
6. Children learn best by observing the behavior of adults and copying it. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
7. Children should never be educated at home by their parents. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
8. Computers can translate all kinds of languages well. Do our children need to learn more languages in the future?
9. Damage to the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living. Discuss.
10. Discuss some of the arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos.
11. Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of giving international aid to poor countries.
12. Do the benefits of study abroad justify the difficulties?
13. Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported?
14. Does foreign aid helps donor countries more than the recipients?
15. Does modern technology make life more convenient, or was life better when technology was simpler?
16. Does travel help to promote understanding and communication between countries?
17. Education is the single most important factor in the development of a country. Do you agree?
18. Foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.
19. The destruction of the world’s forests is inevitable as our need for land and food grows. Do you agree?
20. Human beings do not need to eat meat in order to maintain good health because they can get all their food needs from meatless products and meatless substances. A vegetarian diet is as healthy as a diet containing meat. What is your opinion?
21. If children behave badly, should their parents accept responsibility and also be punished?
22. In many countries, when someone gets old, they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes governments pay for this care. Who should be responsible for our old people? Give reasons. Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
23. In some countries the average worker is obliged to retire at the age of 50, while in others people can work until they are 65 or 70. Until what age do you think people should be encouraged to remain in paid employment? Give reasons for your answer.
24. In what ways has information technology changed work and working practices in the past 10 years?
25. In your opinion should government intervene in the rights of the individual with regard to family planning?
26. In your opinion what factors contribute to a good movie?
27. Is animal testing necessary?
28. Many people believe that women make better parents than men and that this is why they have the greater role in raising children in most societies. Others claim that men are just as good as women at parenting. Write an essay expressing your point of view. Give reasons for your answer.
29. Many students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. Why do some students study abroad? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.
30. Most high level jobs are done by men. Should the government encourage a certain percentage of these jobs to be reserved for women?
31. News editors decide what to broadcast on TV and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence their decisions?
32. Nowadays doctors can become very rich. Maybe they should not focus on profitable activities such as plastic surgery or looking after rich patients and concentrate more on patients’ health, no matter how rich they are?
33. Safety standards are important when building people's homes. Who should be responsible for enforcing strict building codes – the government or the people who build the homes?
34. Should children be taught sex education in schools?
35. Should criminals be punished with lengthy jail terms or should they be re-educated, using community service programs for instance, before being reintroduced to society?
36. Should developing countries concentrate on improving industrial skills or should they promote education first?
37. Should money be spent on space exploration?
38. Should retirement be compulsory at 65 years of age?
39. Should rich countries forgive all debts for poor countries?
40. Should rich countries pay more for environmental damage?
41. Should sports classes be dropped in secondary school so students can concentrate on academic subjects?
42. Should the same laws which prohibit the sale and consumption of heroin be applied to tobacco?
43. Should wealthy nations be required to share their wealth among poorer nations by providing such things as food and education? Or is it a responsibility of the governments of poorer nations to look after their citizens themselves?
44. Should wealthy nations be required to share their wealth among poorer nations?
45. Technology is making communication easier in todays world, but at the expense of personal contact as many people choose to work at home in front of a computer screen. What dangers are there for a society which depends on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact for its main means of communication?
46. Telecommuting refers to workers doing their jobs from home for part of each week and communicating with their office using computer technology. How do you think society will be affected by the growth of telecommuting?
47. The best way to reduce the number of traffic accidents is to make all young drivers complete a safe driving education course before being licensed to drive. What do you think?
48. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use. What do you think?
49. We know the environmental damage that cars cause in developed countries. Should there be limits on car ownership in developing countries?
50. The idea of going overseas for university study is an exciting prospect for many people. But while it may offer some advantages, it is probably better to stay home because of the difficulties a student inevitably encounters living and studying in a different culture. Do you agree or disagree?
51. The mass media, including TV, radio and newspapers, have great influence in shaping people's ideas. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.
52. The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. In order to reverse this decline in the quality of life in cities, attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
53. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits of nuclear technology far overweigh the disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer.
54. To what extent has the traditional male role changed in the last 20 years?
55. To what extent is the use of animals in scientific research acceptable?
56. To what extent should economic planning be influenced by the need of environmental conservation?
57. To what extent should universities function as training grounds for employment?
58. To what extent should university courses be geared to the economic needs of society?
59. To what extent will migration from the developing world to the developed world become a social and political issue in the 21st century? Use specific reasons to support your answer.
60. Tourism is becoming increasingly important as a source of revenue to many countries but its disadvantages should not be overlooked. What are some of the problems of tourism?
61. TV: could you be without it? Discuss.
62. We are becoming increasingly dependent on computers. They are used in businesses, hospitals, crime detection and even to fly planes. What things will they be used for in future? Is this dependence on computers a good thing or should we be more suspicious of their benefits? Use specific details and examples in your answer.
63. What are factors which are related to academic success in high-school students?
64. What should a government do for a country to become successful?
65. Will modern technology such as the internet ever replace the book or the written word as the main source of information?
66. Will the Internet bring people of the world closer together?
67. Zoos are sometimes seen as necessary but not poor alternatives to a natural environment. Discuss some of the arguments for and/or against keeping animals in zoos.

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ssays, which can be defined as interpretative or analytical literary compositions are a part and parcel of student life. However, majority of students do not realize the importance of essay writing and consider it to be a worthless activity. They do not understand that essay writing is important for developing their writing skills. Other than this, studies have proved that writing essays are also said to be important for the intellectual development and knowledge internalization in kids. It not only aids in enhancing their analytical and critical thinking skills, but also their research skills. Hence, it is important to include essay writing for students from a very young age. This will help the kids to understand the basics of essay writing like formatting, sentence construction, organization of thoughts, etc. which will aid them further in the higher classes. Teachers should introduce essay writing to kids with easy topics, gradually moving to more complex topics, like, argumentative, persuasive, etc. which will not only help them in improving their language, but also their writing skills. Let us take a look at some of the school level topics

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ssay topics about micro economics!!! 
Solved: User found a writer Writer ID # 2563 from Essayacademia ,thanks @peter for helping me out 
I was asked to do an essay for Microeconomics class that is a theoretical topic that should have something to do with microeconomics! I need essay topic about micro economics. Why does my English teacher give restrictive topics for essay writing? I really want to be successful and this is going to haunt me the rest of my college life. 
Can you provide me with some topic ideas!! Thank you for any help, all answers are appreciated

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School students are now invited to write an essay of between 1,000 to 2,500 words, on one of the subjects below, set by the RES judging panel, calling on key elements of their A Level or International Baccalaureate courses, examples from the world around them and imaginative discussion.

The essay topics for 2014 are:

1. Promoting growth and fighting poverty should be the priority in the developing world, not reducing greenhouse gases.” Do you agree?
2. Should childcare costs be deductible against tax for working mothers?
3. HS2 will blight the countryside and just lead even more businesses to locate in London.” Discuss.
4. Are the advanced economies in for a long period of economic stagnation?
5. Is independence consistent with Scotland keeping the pound?
6. Does immigrant labour benefit or impoverish the United Kingdom?

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Writing a term paper is often the most dreaded part of an economics course. Often students have difficulty picking a topic suitable for an economics term paper. Either the idea is much too vague, such as, "I want to write something on the auto industry" or the idea has little or nothing to do with economics. A second problem is locating sources for your term paper. It is often difficult to locate good sources of information on a subject with which you are unfamiliar.

In an effort to combat these problems Hannah and Mike have put together five topics for economics term papers. The topics lend themselves well to "discuss an issue" style term papers, but probably are not suitable for term papers which require statistical or econometrics analysis. Each topic contains a brief summary of the issue, a few key questions to answer in your paper, and a list of resources which will help you get started on your research.

The starting points for research include links to newspaper and magazine articles, policy papers put out by think tanks and lobby groups, and lists of academic journal articles. Most journal articles and books are not available online, so you’ll have to obtain these at your school library. Ask the librarian if you are unfamiliar with where the economics journals are located; they’ll be happy to help. The sources you use will depend on the level of the term paper you are writing. Magazine articles are generally appropriate for high school and freshman community college courses, while upper year university courses will require you to use academic journal articles and books. If you are unsure what types of sources you are allowed to use, ask your professor, instructor, or teaching assistant.

The research articles referenced in this article are not meant to be an exhaustive list of sources on the subject. Many of the magazine and journal articles will list other sources you may want to look at. You can also do a Google search for web pages on your subject, but be mindful of the source of the information presented. Anyone can write a web page and have it published on the Internet, so it is important to know what the credentials of the author or organization publishing the piece are. Most schools also maintain a list of research resources for economics students. The one for the University of Rochester is located at: http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=157. When you find a good piece of information or an interesting fact, be sure to jot down where you got it. This will help when making citations or references later.

You may also want to see the economics glossary on this site for information on a topic. It can be found at: http://economics.about.com/library/glossary/blglossary.htm. Many of the entries contain starting points for research, such as the entry for cartels.

Now let’s get to the topics!

Economics 236-001/002, Fall 2006 Dr. H. King Essay Topics List

You may do your own topic, but you must get my approval in advance. This approval is in two stages. First, you should discuss with me the general concept well in advance, so that we can narrow down a specific research question. Second, you must then present me with a brief outline of how you plan to tackle the research question, and at least 3 references by Nov. 2^nd.

The following topics sometimes have references – these are just a starting point, you need to find your own references as well. See the Essay Resource Page onreferencing for some ideas for general referencing.

1.   Plea bargaining between prosecutors and defense lawyers is a key component of most guilty findings in Canada and the United States . What are the costs and benefits to society of plea bargaining? What does it do to the incentives and decision-making of criminals? Is it fair to victims? Is it efficient (does it pass the cost-benefit test)?

• M. Tigar, “Lawyers, Jails, and the Law’s Fake Bargains,” Monthly Review, July/August 2001.
• 2002 Report of the Auditor-General of Canada, Chapter 4, Section 4.35, at http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/reports.nsf/html/0204ce.html/$file/0204ce.pdf.

2.   Resolved: Marijuana should be legalized, and regulated in a manner similar to tobacco or alcohol. What are the costs and benefits of legalization? Is it a good idea? Do you think it should be legalized? Look to evidence from other countries’ experience with decriminalization (no country has legalized), and past experience in various countries who legalized alcohol at various stages.
See the many references in the notes to section 9 of the course.

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3.   Resolved: Cocaine (OR heroin) should be legalized and a harm reduction program to reduce addiction should be implemented. What are the costs and benefits of legalization? Is it a good idea? Do you think it should be legalized? Look at other countries experiences with harm reduction models (e.g. Britain), as well as the experiments in Vancouver.
See the many references in the notes to section 9 of the course.

4.   Blizzard Entertainment runs the online video game “World of Warcraft.” Players in this game pay a monthly fee in order to take an on-line character, and try and build up their abilities and their gaming level. By doing so, players not only gain their own self-satisfaction, but are also able to play in more complex settings (often by joining guilds and participating in multi-player raids).

      A serious problem in this virtual world is the problem of automated farming. To quote Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_%28gaming%29):

      “A farmer is a general term for a MMORPG player who attempts to acquire ("farm") items of value within a game, usually in order to exploit the game's virtual economy. This is usually accomplished by carrying out in-game actions (such as killing an important creature) repeatedly to maximize income. More broadly, the term could refer to a player of any type of game who repeats mundane actions over and over in order to collect in-game items. … A gold farmer is a player who farms items for the sole purpose of sale to other players via an out-of-game venue, such as eBay or IGE (also called RMT - Real-money trading). Since there is significant real-world demand for in-game gold, gold farming sometimes is taken very seriously. Most modern MMORPGs include terms of service that forbid this kind of activity, so gold farmers tend to be secretive about their real life (and online) identities.”

What are the “costs” to this virtual society of illegal farming? What are the costs to the real economy? What motivates the decision of the “criminal”? Why are most farmers Chinese (according to my son, anyways)? Help Blizzard to design an appropriate set of prevention and punishment methods to appropriately reduce farming to a desirable level. Is Blizzard’s desirable level the same as the desirable level for the overall virtual WOW community? Explain carefully. (Similar problems exist with Sony’s game, Everquest, if you are more familiar with it.)

    As background, you may like to consult the following:

·        An online article by Robert Shapiro at Slate.msn.com, “Fantasy Economics: Why economists are obsessed with online role-playing games” athttp://slate.msn.com/id/2078053.

·        You may also wish to consult the article by E. Castronova that Shapiro refers to (which has been expanded into a book: Edward Castronova, Synthetic Worlds, University of Chicago Press (2005)). The article is at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828.

·        Castronova’s webpage at http://mypage.iu.edu/~castro/ is also useful.

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5.   The University is reconsidering its academic misconduct policy, with a larger emphasis on education and restorative justice. (I can provide you with a copy of the committee’s orders from the VP Academic). Use the economics of crime approach to create suggestions on how to redesign our policy. Remember – punishment is not everything, there is a role for education and restorative justice. Appropriate readings include

·        Joe Kerkvliet, “Cheating by Economics Students: A Comparison of Survey Results,” Journal of Economic Education, Spring 1994, pages 121-133.

·        Douglas Bunn et. al., “Crime in the Classroom: An Economic Analysis of Undergraduate Student Cheating Behaviour,” Journal of Economic Education, Summer 1992, pages 197-207.

·        Julia Christensen-Hughes, “??”, Canadian Journal of Higher Education, November 2006, which will apparently be published soon. There is a summary of the research in the Oct. 2, 2006 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Academic Integrity Gets a Bad Grade in Survey of University Students in Canada,” by Karen Birchard (I can get you a copy).

·        The research by Don McCabe of the Center for Academic Integrity, at http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp is quite relevant.

·        J. Weinstein and C. Dobkin, “Plagiarism in U.S. Higher Education: Estimating Internet Plagiarism Rates and Testing a Means of Deterrence,” University ofCalifornia (Berkeley), mimeo Nov. 2002 (available from H. King).

·        A. Frean, “Plagiarism ‘is fault of indulgent lecturers’,” The Time of London, Oct. 18, 2006, online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2409036,00.html.

6.   Explain and evaluate the “broken windows” approach to policing, with an emphasis on the economics analysis of this approach.

·        James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, “Broken Windows,” March 1982 The Atlantic Monthly.

·        George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities Simon & Schuster 1996.

·        H. Corman and H. N. Mocan, “Carrots, Sticks and Broken Windows,” Journal of Law and Economics, April 2005. Also published as NBER Working Paper no. 9061, available through the library webpage.

·        Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig , “Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment,” University of Chicago Law Review, Winter 2006, online at http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/issues/archive/v73/winter/14.Harcourt.pdf.

·        S. D. Levitt, “Understanding Why Crime Fell…” in our coursepack (where it is discussed under “Better Policing Strategies” on page 172). He also discusses it in his Freaknonomics book.

·        Daniel Macallair, “Shattering "Broken Windows": An Analysis of San Francisco's Alternative Crime Policies”, Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice, available online at http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/windows/windows.html.

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7.   Should Prostitution or any of the attendant aspects of it (soliciting, selling, advertising, pimping) be a crime? If you decide it should be a crime, how would you reduce its prevalence and its problems? If you decide it should not be a crime, how would you reduce the negative aspects? (Group work: do both.)

·        D. Duchesne, “Street Prostitution in Canada,” Juristat Reader, 1999

·        The Economist, “It’s Their Business,” Jan. 4, 2001, “Sex for sale, legally,” July 11th, 2001, “Red lights ahead,” Sept. 6, 2001, “It’s a Foreigner’s Game,” Sept. 4, 2004 (Available from H. King)

·        Janice Johnston, “Confronted”, SEE Magazine, April 8, 1999,http://www.seemagazine.com/Issues/1999/0408/in.html

·        B. Milman, “New Rules for the Oldest Profession: Should We Change Our Prostitution Laws?” (1980), Spring 1980, Vol. 3 Harvard Women’s Law Journal

·        Pivot Legal Society, Beyond Decriminalization: Sex-work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform, 2006, online at http://www.pivotlegal.org/Publications/reports.htm

·        Prostitutes Education Network, http://www.bayswan.org/index.html

·        S. Wortley et. al., “Vice Lessons: A Survey Of Prostitution Offenders Enrolled In The Toronto John SchoolDiversion Program”, Canadian Journal of Criminology, Oct. 2002

8.   Use the Economics of Crime approach to analyze the U.S. government’s attempts to stop on-line gambling – George Bush is about to sign a law criminalizing online gambling. Why are they criminalizing online gambling, when casinos are spread across the U.S. Is this socially optimal? Given low entry, can targeting supply-side work? Critically analyse whether or not there is much chance of success, and is so, how? Would a harm-reduction approach work better? Explain how such an approach might work.

·        See “The Gambling Is Virtual; the Money Is Real”, By MATT RICHTEL and HEATHER TIMMONS, New York Times, July 25, 2006, “For the first time, Washington has succeeded in temporarily shutting down a publicly owned gambling site, and its effort has operators’ share prices plummeting.”

·        See “Bodog boss Ayre steers clear of U.S.”, by SINCLAIR STEWART, Globe and Mail July 26, 2006, “Ever since Calvin Ayre landed on the cover of Forbes magazine's annual billionaires issue, people have been assailing him with one question: Why isn't he taking advantage of the growing thirst for gambling stocks with an initial public offering of his company, Bodog Entertainment Group? Last week, they got their answer. A British gambling executive was handcuffed at a Dallas airport by U.S. authorities after a routine stopover, in part because his company accepts bets from Americans. The arrest cast a pall over the gambling sector, which is largely based inBritain, undercutting stock prices and prompting concerns that Internet sports betting and casino operations could be facing a serious crackdown.”

·        Also see the Economist for July 22^nd, 2006, “Online gambling: Out of Luck”, and several other news articles that H. King has.

·        See also the Becker-Posner Blog – http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/08/ – near the bottom of the page.

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9.   The BC Justice Review Task Force has argued for a comprehensive, community court approach to chronic offenders and street crime. Summarize the recommendations and their rationale, and analyze their approach using the Economics of Crime approach.

·        See the Task Force’s news release at http://www.bcjusticereview.org/working_groups/street_crime/media_release_10_12_05.asp, and the actual report athttp://www.bcjusticereview.org/working_groups/street_crime/scwg_report_09_29_05.pdf.

·        I also suggest you spend some time looking at B.C. newspapers for local reaction.

10. Summarize the economic case for and against the death penalty, and provide a conclusion. Your conclusion may incorporate other arguments (e.g. philosophical arguments). Focus on deterrence and the benefits and costs to society of capital punishment.

·        Ilyana Kuziemko, “Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence fromNew York’s 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment,” American Law and Economics Review, 2006 8: 116-14. The abstract is here.

·        J. Donohue and J. Wolfers, “The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence,”. Economics Voice, April 2006, online at www.bepress.com/ev. In addition, take a look at the reply by Paul Rubin (same issue), counter-reply by Donohue and Wolfers, and counter-counter reply by Rubin.

·        H. Dezhbakhsh and J. Shepherd, “The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a “Judicial Experiment”,” Economic Inquiry, July 2006.

·        Dr. Ken Leyton-Brown in the History department is carrying out a large research project on this topic – talk to him.

·        K. Avio, “Capital Punishment in Canada: A Time-Series Analysis of the Deterrent Hypothesis,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Nov. 1979.

·        I. Ehrlich, “The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment - A Question of Life and Death,” American Economic Review, Vol. 65 (3), June 1975, pp. 397-417

·        Lawrence Katz, Steven D. Levitt, Ellen Shustorovich, “Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence,” American Law and Economics Review, Aug 2003. (See also Levitt’s references to capital punishment in his article “Understanding Why Crime Fell…” in our coursepack.)

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11. Do an updated, first-class version of the Brantingham and Easton cost study. You should substantially improve on my presentation in class by examining carefully the assumptions I have made (explicit and implicit), and improving them. For many of the costs I presented, I did work that was not in Brantingham and Easton (but did not do it that deeply, or tie off all the lose ends). Secondly, for many of the costs calculated by Brantingham and Easton directly, I merely took their 1996 data on total crime costs by different type of crime and adjusted it by the inflation rate to find the 2006 costs. A better approach would have been to use the per crime cost they took, adjusted the per crime cost for inflation, found the new crime quantities, and done the appropriate multiplication.

12. Use the Economics of Crime approach to analyse reducing violence in hockey. From a social viewpoint, is it a crime that needs to be reduced? If we decided to reduce it, how would we successfully do it? (Investigate how other sports have reduced violence, specifically some rather famous cases in basketball.) Articles include:

·        J. Heckelman and A. Yates, “And a Hockey Game Broke out: Crime and Punishment in the NHL,” Economic Inquiry, Oct. 2003.

·        W. David Allen, “Cultures of Illegality in the National Hockey League,” Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 71(3), pages 494-513.

·        J. Feinstein, The Punch : One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight that Changed Basketball, Back Bay Books, 2003.

·        Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports, “Building a New Brand of Sport – What About Violence?,” http://www.cces.ca/pdfs/cces-paper-violence-e.pdf

13. Use the Economics of Crime approach to find a policy to reduce the prevalence of marijuana grow-operations (assume legalization is not an option). Be sure to present arguments on how criminals decide whether or not to proceed in this setting, and how to alter enforcement and punishment to reduce the number of grow-ops.

·        Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Marihuana Cultivation in Canada: Evolution and Current Trends,” Criminal Intelligence Directorate, November 2002 (http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/crimint/cultivation_e.htm)

·        CTV Canada, “Marijuana Backgrounder,” 2003, http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/marijuana/index_timeline.html

·        Delta Police, Grow-Op Task Force, http://www.police.delta.bc.ca/Pages/gotf.html

·        S. Easton, “Marijuana Growth in British Columbia,” Public Policy Sources #74, 2004, Fraser Institute,

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Unemployment is a worldwide curse. It is recognized as the mother of courtliness ills. It encourages dishonesty, corruption and falsehood. It develops dark side of human character. There are different causes of unemployment like poverty, over population, in-effective education system and industrial development. Similarly there are various steps to check this giant problem. No doubt the government is fully aware of this problem but the quick remedies are needed to check this problem.

Poverty is the main cause of this evil. Broadly speaking it is difficult to expect truth, nobility and honesty from a person who cannot have two square meals a day. He loses sense of self-dignity as he has no sense of security. He is worried about his survival rather than morality. Therefore, poverty is a great danger to the state.

The rapid growth of population is another cause of unemployment. Along with the growing population this problem has also developed. It demand s a quick check. Unemployed people are always dangerous to the security of the state.

“It is better to employ people to dig holes and fill them rather than not to employ them at all”.

Our education system is also defective. It produces a large number of students who are taught purely literary of theoretical education. There is hardly any provision of technical or vocational education. This drawback makes the students dislike the manual work. Therefor, majority rushes to the cities and increases unemployment.

Lack of interest in industrialization is also a cause of unemployment. Industrial units provide employment to both educated and uneducated people. Therefore, we should encourage industrialization.

Our social system is another cause of unemployment. In our society many depend upon few. It has been observed that majority of family members are dependents. This trend has given rise to unemployment.

Unemployment has now become such a dangerous economic. Social and political problem that it has endangered the security of the country. The law and order situation in the country has also been affected. Therefore complete programme is required.

First step should be to revise the social system of our country. More skilled persons can be trained to help their families. This would be a good help to remove unemployment.

Our faulty education system requires a complete overhauling. We have to take full advantages from science and technology to cure this problem. All the people should be trained so that the cities should not be overcrowded because it results in unemployment.

Industrial development can also relieve us from the miseries of unemployment. There is no lack of manpower, cheap, labor, raw materials and mineral resources in our country, but the misfortune is that they are not scientifically used for the benefit of common people.

Conclusion:

In the end we can say that unemployment is a real problem. We know its causes, we know its remedies, therefore. It becomes the constitutional obligation of the governmen

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BA English Essay: Unemployment
Unemployment is when a person between the ages of 18 and 65 is willing and able to work, but cannot find a job. Unemployment has crippled many economies in the world including Pakistan. It is one of the main objectives of a government to reduce unemployment.
One of the major causes of unemployment is lack of capital. Capital is another name for investment. It is imperative for an economy to be injected with foreign investment as it also encourages the local investors to make the move. People are not motivated to initiate a business which results in limited job opportunities. Another major cause of the unemployment is the mindset of the people of Pakistan. Students always expect to do a job after the completion of their education and they are never inclined to start their own business. This is the reason people keep waiting for the job and are ultimately discontented with their lives.
Some people link unemployment to lack of skill, but I believe that unemployment is lack of demand rather than lack of skill. An employer will not employ people in his or her organization due to the fact that he or she does not have enough demand for the products which are to be produced in his or her company. The only way to increase the demand for the products is to increase the real income of the middle class in the country.
Thriving economies like India and China have been encouraging their young people to be entrepreneurs whereas the Government of Pakistan especially Punjab Government is making every effort to throw all the skilled people out of the country. The government should hold workshops to make young educated people aware of the whole notion of small business. Another way to get rid of this menace is to reduce employment benefits. Unemployment benefit is the money given to a person who does not find job. This money should be sufficient to meet the everyday need of the person. Upon getting this unemployment benefit most people become lethargic and they stop searching for work which starts the vicious circle of unemployment.
Unemployment can have devastating effect on the people. Every effort should be made by the government to provide ample opportunities to the people who are willing to work. The government should also safeguard the interests of the people who cannot work.

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1. Introduction:

1.1. Inflation – General Definition:
Inflation indicates the rise in price of a basket of commodities on a point-to-point basis [1]. Inflation is caused by a persistent increase in the prices of goods and services. Inflation measures the increase in the cost of living over a period of one year. For example, if a set of commodities bought in January 2000 cost Rs 100, and the same set of commodities bought in January 2001 cost Rs 110, and then the inflation rate is 10%. The Inflation rate is considered to be high if it is more than 5%. On the contrary if the prices of commodities decline consistently then it leads to deflation. Both inflation and deflation are detrimental to a country’s economy, and hence inflation must be kept moderate in a developing nation.

1.2. Inflation in India:
India suffers with maximum inflation compared to chief markets. From the last two years India is trying to bring down the inflation rate but all the efforts are in vain. Started with the hike in food prices, inflation now has a strong foothold in the Indian economy. The consequence is that the hiked price is now considered as the “new normal” in an economy which has had subsidised prices since independence. To counter this Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised lending rates numerous times since March 2010. 
The rate of inflation is measured by The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) [1] in India. The WPI is accessible for all types of commodities which help to keep a check on price conditions. The RBI formulates policies in terms of WPI.


1.3. Influence of Inflation in Normal Day-to-Day Life:
The rise in inflation results in the increase in economic uncertainty. Compared to the developed economies, the cost may rise up more in India because of inflation. The impact of inflation is more on the society the lower class and the middle class. This is further aided by the