Friday, December 16, 2005

DS 100 and Econ 101 (optional quiz)

Odd One Out (then justify)
1. rice economies, peripheries, metropoles, LDCs
2. state subsidies, tariff regime, fair trade-not free trade!, stagflation
3. PDAF, CDF. pork barrel, GAA
4. debt trap, debt cycle, debt cap, debt crisis
5. east, south, west, LDCs
6. tied aid, conditionalities, autarky, culture of dependency
7. j. stiglitz, m. chossudovsky, m. khor, f. fukuyama
8. SAP, GATS, GATT, PERC
9. neoliberalism, ultra-consumerism, statism, turbo-capitalism
10.boom-bust, contraction-expansion, business cycle, production possibility frontier

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic. Situate it in the context of the Global South. Provide an appropriate title. P...