Analyse an article from an economic journal

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Reference no: EM131460837 , Length: word count:1500

Assessment Task

Article Critique: Locate and critically analyse an article from an economic/business journal in light of the Economic theories studied throughout the unit.

Purpose: To develop your familiarity with the language and tools of economic analysis and reasoning by critically analysing a contemporary business/economic news article.

Assessment criteria:

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 business article must have been published within the last six months. Requirements

The article analysis is comprised of a written paper of no more than 1500 words. In preparing your business 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 theoretical economic concepts which are relevant to the article

3. Point out the related policy issues (e.g. what government policy is or should be) and debate around the issue.

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.

Length and/or format: 1500 words each assessment.

Reference no: EM131460837

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len1460837

4/13/2017 3:03:40 AM

Australian student, 1500 words, need it on journal which should not be less than six months, I want you send me the journal including the journals as i need to take preparation for presentation and please follow the Harvard referencing, some theories and points need to be covered which are demand and supply, Elasticity, production, perfect competition and monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly. Please confirm the assignment which Journal you are going to choose.

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