Possible Topics for Learning Team Projects


 
The following are some possible Learning Team Topics.  However, this list is not comprehensive.  If you have something else in mind, let me know. 
 
1. Globalization
2. World Trade Organization
3. Economic Reform in China
4. Job Outsourcing
5. Economic effects of terrorism
6. Federal Reserve/Monetary policy
7. Japanese Banking Problems
8. Deficit Spending
9. Social Security
10. Re-importing drugs from Canada 
11. Hernando de Soto/economic development in the third world
12. F. A. Hayek
13. Adam Smith
14. History of money
15. Effects of the Internet on the economy
16. The fall of communism
17. Islamic Banking/Finance/Economics
18. OPEC
19. IMF
20. World Bank
21. Economic development in Iraq, China, India, Chile, Russia, or another developing country.
22. Economic troubles in Africa
23. The cost of official corruption
24. The economic importance of law
25. Oil Shale, Oil Sands, Coal Liquefaction or other alternative energy resources
26. Latin America's return to Marxism
27. Technologies that are "Flattening the World." (The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman)
28. Micro lending
29. Complexity Economics
  30. Subprime Mortgage/Credit Crisis