PART A
1) Explain, give a real life example and a solution for the the 4 Types of Market Failures – 1) Public Goods, 2) Externalities (positive and negative), 3) Monopoly Power, and 4) Inequality. Please use a Reputable Source, (such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The Economist, etc.) to find your real life example.

 

 

PART B
1) Using the St. Louis Federal Reserve – Fred website: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search, Find current economic indicators for real GDP, Prices, Inflation, Unemployment and Economic Growth . 2) Download the (Monthly data) for Prices, Inflation and Unemployment and the (Quarterly data) for GDP and Economic Growth for the last 3 years in an excel spreadsheet and insert an excel a graph for each series overtime in a separate graph. 3) Describe each series relationship and comment on whether it is increasing or decreasing and how do they compare to one another.
1) CPI – Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers: All Items, SA – seasonally adjusted – (Prices)
2) Percentage change in CPI from a year ago – (Inflation)

3) Civilian Unemployment Rate (Unemployment)
4) Real Gross Domestic Product, 3 Decimal (GDP) – Real GDP
5) Change in Real Gross Domestic Product, (Economic Growth)

 

 

 

 

PART C
1. Calculate and graph what happens to G, AD, GDP, and Prices if the government increases government spending by 100 billion and the MPC = .80.
2. Calculate and graph what happens to T, C, AD, GDP, and Prices if the President raises taxes by 100 billion and the MPC = .80.
3. Calculate and graph what happens to AD, GDP and Prices if the government raises both taxes and government spending by 200 billion and the MPC is equal to .75.

PART D
• Go to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget website: http://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/
• Following the instructions and get the Debt to 80% of GDP in the next 10 years, and 50% by 2050.
• Once you have are done, print the last page that includes the programs that you added or cut and write 1-2 paragraphs about why you should be President based on your budget proposal.

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.

God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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