Sunday, October 20, 2019

October 20

Sorry folks, I had a busy Friday and Saturday and neglected to post this on time.


You wrote your Paper 3 today in class. We'll be going through Social 30-1 position paper writing next week. On Wednesday, you'll be writing a 30-1 WRA II essay on Wednesday, October 23rd. You'll be writing a 30-1 multiple choice test on economic systems on Thursday, October 24th (please see the study guide below).


This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th
  • supply-side economics
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle
  • laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
    self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
  • basic economic problems/questions
  • advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
  • causes of the Great Depression
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • nationalization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies 
  • demand-side economics
  • neo-conservatives
  • monetarism
  • trickle down economics
  • supply-side economics
  • Thatcherism and Reaganomics
  • Milton Friedman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession


We looked at the Russian History Notes in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. You were responsible for going through the notes on Marx, Lenin,and Stalin in your coursebooks too. We talked briefly about the different strands of socialism as well. We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series on "Stalin and the Modernization of the USSR" as well.


This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
  • supply-side economics
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle
  • laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
    self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
  • basic economic problems/questions
  • advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
  • causes of the Great Depression
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
  • nationalization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
  • demand-side economics
  • neo-conservatives
  • monetarism
  • trickle down economics
  • supply-side economics
  • Thatcherism and Reaganomics
  • Milton Friedman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession


We watched the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler", which took most of the period. We'll keep looking at the road to World War II on Monday.

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