“Bring It Home” description covers organic produce and raises questions that explore why organic produce is more expensive than its conventional, non-organic counterparts, which seems counterintuitive since organic uses less chemicals and does not travel as far as conventional produce. In this discussion, your task is to: Think of or find some other good …
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U.S. health care spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, reaching $2.9 trillion or $9,255 per person. As a share of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.4 percent. Using the above information and other information you will be directed to below, do the following: Define the economic principle of opportunity cost. Locate …
What lessons/concepts/theory you have learned from this class and why do you think it is important or impactful in both your learning process and/or profession? Explain your response. Answer the following questions:
Explain how social class influences consumer behavior and why these influences are considerations when marketers plan strategy and tactics. How do the changing nature of households present marketing opportunities? Explore how people’s needs change as they go through different stages of the family life cycle, and how marketers can adapt marketing …
How does the concept of “operant conditioning” apply to consumer behavior? Do you see this concept in your own consumer behavior for some products/services? What did you find reinforcing experiences? What did you find punishing experiences? How did these experiences “teach” you about future purchasing decisions?
Assume an organization is facing a labor surplus. What would be the organization’s consideration for downsizing? Identify why it would be in their best interest to use an alternative method other than downsizing to reduce this surplus? Explain how this alternative method may affect employee behaviors.
Provide a theoretical conceptualization of the conflict that you will be analyzing for your paper. Your thread should focus on the conceptualization, and will be a much shorter summary of the document you will turn in for the Conflict Resolution: Part 2 – Literature Review and Conceptualization Assignment. Your post will allow feedback from your …
Introduction What effects do changes in supply and demand have on equilibrium price and quantity? Suppose that the supply of some good (for example, health care) is constant and demand increases. As a result, the new intersection of the supply and demand curves is at higher values on both the price and the quantity …
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Imagine a Free Trade Area of the Americas that would join Canada and the United States with Latin American countries, where wages are lower and technology is less developed. Which U.S. industries do you think would gain from such a trade area? Specifically, do you think labor-intensive industries or high-technology …
What do you think of the “Slowbalization” article assigned for this week in The Economist? Do you agree or disagree with the author? Should I require future classes read this? I’m looking forward to reading what you have to say.
