Before Class on Tuesday, 11/02
Read: Lumen Learning “Automatic Stabilizers”
Watch (4:10): Mazzucato (2013) – just from 4:50-9:00
In Class
Slides: Keynesian Cross and Fiscal Policy
Before Class on Thursday 11/04
Have done or attempted all of Weekly Review 9
In Class
Amadeo, Kimberly. (2020). “Supply Side Economics with Examples: Does It Work?” The Balance. 27 September. https://www.thebalance.com/supply-side-economics-does-it-work-3305786
Material Links
[optional] Giles, Chris. (2021). “Covid-19 demonstrated ‘power’ of government spending, says IMF.” Financial Times. 13 October. Giles, Chris. https://www.ft.com/content/851546e7-8d2a-4407-9987-da5ab89464c9
Lumen Learning. “Automatic Stabilizers” https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-macroeconomics/chapter/counterbalancing-recession-and-boom/
Mazzucato, Mariana. (2013). “Government — investor, risk taker, innovator.” TEDglobal. https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_investor_risk_taker_innovator?language=en
(You can watch the whole thing (13:46) if you like, but the only required piece is 4:50-9:00.)
1. What is Fiscal Policy and why is it so important?
2. I learned that Fiscal Policy is when the legislative branch creates laws to help stabilize the economy, typically through government spending and taxes. There are two types of fiscal policies, non-discretionary and discretionary. Non-discretionary Fiscal Policy is when laws that are already present automatically speed up or slow down the economy. Discretionary Fiscal Policy is when Congress makes new laws that are designed to increase or decrease government spending or taxes, aiming to stabilizing the economy.
3. My favorite part of Fiscal Policy is that its main purpose is to help the economy, and that it could prevent the economy from collapsing during a crisis.
Reading summary
in response to Mazzucato, Mariana. (2013). “Government — investor, risk taker, innovator.” TEDglobal.
Did you know know that the initial launch of Apples IPHONES were government funded?
I learned that all the iphone components are at least in the beginning stages since the information provided is from 2013 government funded , I always thought apple
funded this themselves and they outsourced there engineering in China
My favorite part was when Mariana started predicting the future with the green initiative and the taxing the rich more. My least favorite part was learning that not only was Apple government funded , they basically put nothing back in the states because of there tax advantage and that they were using all these government funded technology but couldn’t build a sustainable phone screen that wouldn’t crack as soon as it fell or maybe that was done purposely to make them more money
What I understand : fiscal policy is used or set by the govt and I see it involves taxes so my..
Question : what is fiscal policy exactly and how does it work? Who does it impact and is the impact good or bad?
Something I learned : I learned that the things that make an iPhone a smart phone such as GPS, Siri, touch screen and the internet are all government funded such as..
GPS – military navstar program
Siri – DARPA
Internet – DARPA, US department of defense
touch screen – two public grants by the CIA and the NSF
What I liked : the ted talk clip, it was short but also interesting to learn that the gadgets from the iPhone are govt funded
Dislike: although it was informative, I didn’t like that the reading continued on