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代写 applied microeconomics
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Assignment I
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‘Lange believed economic calculation was just a matter of throwing enough computing power at the problem. Today's regulators believe the same thing – extensive risk models purport to give regulators enough information to manage the private sector. The global financial crisis demonstrated that those models are elaborate fictions. Yet the response from regulators has been to double down and insist on greater powers and more complex models.
The calculation problem is endemic in highly regulated sectors like health, where it is not the price system that coordinates resources, but bureaucrats and politicians. Every government proposes to reform health but the sector will remain unreformable until this basic problem is recognised. In the meantime health will continue to be dominated by rent-seekers and rife with inefficiency.’
Discuss.
Chris Berg - http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3748856.html
•Details
•Due Date: April 3, 2016
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•Your assignment must be submitted via the TURNITIN system.
•Your assignment must have the approved assessment cover sheet as the first page.
•Your assignment must have your name on it.
•Your assignment must have your student number on it.
•Your assignment must be 2,500 words.
–This word count does NOT include the bibliography.
–You MUST include a bibliography with your assignment.
•This assignment is worth 30 percent of the marks available in this subject.
•Writing a Research Paper
•Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. --- Gene Fowler
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•Appearances do matter. How you present your research is as important as the research itself.
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•Writing a Draft
•Thinking like a reader
–Overall Plan
–Section Plan
–Paragraph Plan
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–Overall Plan
–Introduction and Conclusion that states main claim, main finding, the problem, the solution
–What are the major sections of the paper?
–Section Plan
–What do these sections do?
–What is the point?
–Paragraph Plan
–Each paragraph must make a point.
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•Writing a Draft
•Once you have a draft
–Identify your argument
–What are really saying in the paper?
–Is that what you wanted to say?
–Yes - you’re not off the hook yet
–No - more reflection required
–Consider the quality of your argument
–Is your evidence reliable?
–Fact check (especially knowledge you think you know)
–Does your evidence relate to your claims?
–Have you qualified your arguments?
–Have you over-stated your claims and evidence?
•Writing a Draft
•Quality of Evidence
Level I: Evidence obtained from properly designed randomized controlled trials.
Level II: Evidence obtained from well-designed controlled trials with independent test data.
Level III: Evidence obtained from well-designed statistical analysis of observational time series, preferably from more than one centre or research group.
Level IV: Evidence obtained from testing on non-independent data, untested numerical simulations or theoretical models.
Level V: Opinions of respected authorities, based on clinical experience, descriptive studies, or reports of expert committees.
•Writing a Draft
•Your draft must include the following:
–Description of the problem
–Do not confuse the reader
–Use standardised definitions
–Define new concepts clearly and state upfront that it is a new concept
–Do not use new names for old ideas or old names for new ideas
–Describe your method
–Preferably use standard techniques
–Describe them anyway
–Describe your data
–Origin of data
–Show descriptive statistics and diagrams
–Interpret your results
–The data do not always speak for themselves
•Common Mistakes
•Irrelevant Information
–Anecdotal information
–Unnecessary background
–Including material that is inappropriate for the readership
–Subjectivity and use of superlatives
•Not Proof Reading
•Grammar and Spelling
–Use UK English in MS Word
•Significance
•Writing a Draft
•Have a work goal
–Identify goals in terms of output
–Not I’ll write for 5 hours per day
–But I’ll write 500 good words per day
–Budget for setbacks and revisions
–Work steadily and consistently
–Start writing sooner rather than latter
–Material can always be taken out at short notice, but can’t be added at short notice.
–Rather over deliver than under deliver.
代写 applied microeconomics
•Checklist
•Problem
–Is the problem clearly stated?
–Is the problem narrowly defined and researchable?
–Does the problem pass the ‘So-what?’ test?
•Literature Review
–Is the review logically organised?
–Thematic or historical
–Is the review complete?
•Conceptual Framework
–Does the framework/Literature Review link to the problem?
•Hypotheses
–Are the hypotheses clear, testable, specific?
–Do the hypotheses follow from the theoretical framework?
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•Checklist (cont.)
•Data
–Are the data sources described?
–Are the data described?
•Research Design
–Is the methodology described?
–Is the methodology appropriate?
•Results
–Are the results clearly described and interpreted?
–Are the tables easy to understand?
–Can readers relate interpretation of results to the tables?
•Language
•Writing in English is not easy
•Spelling
–You can’t afford any mistakes here
–Know the correct words, use a dictionary – not just an online spell check
•Punctuation
–If you’re unsure ask
–Read books like ‘Eats, shoots and leaves’
•Grammar
–English is not a laissez faire language (despite what you were taught at school).
–Some logic, lots of rules
•Style
–Work to make your writing pleasurable to read
•Economical Writing
•See Economical Writing by Deirdre McCloskey
–Write for an audience of human beings
–Avoid boiler plate
–Control your tone
–Paragraphs have points
–Make tables, equations, etc. readable and easy
–Footnotes are pests for pedants
–Use your ear
–Read out aloud
–Write in complete sentences
–Use active language not passive
–Be concrete
–Be plain
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