Here are the powerpoint notes for chapter 13 The Costs of Production:

Chapter 13 – lecture notes

Chapter 12-presentation

Here’s a great example of the Tragedy of the Commons. Fidelity Investments is offering Tamiflu to their employees through a private physician with whom they have contracted to supply prescriptions. After reading the article, can you explain how this exemplifies the Tragedy of the Commons? Should there be restrictions on private organizations providing this type of good without public health officials’ consent?

Here’s the link to the Chapter 11 powerpoint:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:3ZBWGRAwlQ4J:www.swlearning.com/economics/mankiw/mankiw3e/ppt_lecture/public_goods.ppt+mankiw+public+goods+common+resources+powerpoint&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Click the link for the Externality Lecture Notes to chapter 10.

You can also click this link to a previous article about negative externalities.

Here are some review Packets for Micro that you can download. (They’re PDF files so you’ll need Acrobat.)

Introduction to Economics

Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium

Costs of Production

These packets come from Welker’s Wikinomics, one of the most useful sites on the Web!

Follow this link for the chart that I gave out on Friday for international trade. Enjoy Spring Break!

Here are a couple of articles from The New York Times regarding the recent moves by the Federal Reserve. Special thanks to Samir for passing aloing one of the links.

You can download the Chapter 28 Powerpoint presentation here. I also found this article on the New York Times web site today. Some economist are predicting that there is a fundamental shift occuring in the U.S. economy that may signal a longer downturn and perhaps a depression.