ECO 202
 Module 3 - Lesson Plan 1

 Principles of Economics 2
 Microeconomics

 Government Influences on Market

 

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A.  A price ceiling set above the equilibrium price has no effects.
B.  A price ceiling set below the equilibrium price creates a shortage, costly search, and a black market.
C.  A price ceiling is inefficient and unfair.
D.  A rent ceiling is an example of a price ceiling.

 

A.  A price floor set below the equilibrium price has no effects.
B.  A price floor set above the equilibrium price creates a surplus, costly search, and a black market.
C.  A price floor is inefficient and unfair.
D.  A minimum wage is an example of a price floor.

 

 

 

Class Activities

 

 

7.1  Explain how a price ceiling works and show how a rent ceiling creates a housing shortage, inefficiency, and unfairness.

 

 

7.2  Explain how a price floor works, and show how the minimum wage creates unemployment, inefficiency, and unfairness.

 

 

 

 

 

Summary - Course Objectives

 

 

 

7.1  Explain how a price ceiling works and show how a rent ceiling creates a housing shortage, inefficiency, and unfairness.

A.  A price ceiling set above the equilibrium price has no effects.
B.  A price ceiling set below the equilibrium price creates a shortage, costly search, and a black market.
C.  A price ceiling is inefficient and unfair.
D.  A rent ceiling is an example of a price ceiling.

 

7.2  Explain how a price floor works, and show how the minimum wage creates unemployment, inefficiency, and unfairness.

A.  A price floor set below the equilibrium price has no effects.
B.  A price floor set above the equilibrium price creates a surplus, costly search, and a black market.
C.  A price floor is inefficient and unfair.
D.  A minimum wage is an example of a price floor.

 

 

 

 

Your Homework

 

 

Complete all portions of the textbook and study guide relating to   Checkpoint 7.1, and 7.2 on Government Influences on Markets. 

Take the optional post-study bonus point quizzes on Government Influences on Markets on Saturday following Module 3.

Take the optional pre-study bonus point quizzes on Externalities on Sunday preceding Module 4.

Then read and study Government Influences on Markets course objective 7.3 in your textbook and study guide
before attending
the next class session.

 

 

 

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