Sentences with phrase «economics class»

My friend and I are vegetarian and we are making veggie burgers in home economics class when everyone else is making beef burgers.

Your comment about being able to buy life is spot on and reminds me quite a bit of the lessons in economics class of marginal utility.

Unless I am missing something — which is certainly possible — they make a variety of assertions that are usually exposed as fallacy in introductory economics classes.

It goes back to the basic things you learned about in a high school economics class about supply and demand.

I got my real estate license and sold property between economics classes.

Her high school offered more home economics classes than math and science courses combined.

Just like you learned in economics class, competition drives prices down.

Don't spend time creating another PowerPoint for Economics class and don't buy 50 different lessons online.

When he's not teaching economics classes at the University of Chicago, penning «Freakonomics» books, or doing articles or podcasts on quirks of applied microeconomics, Steve Levitt occasionally takes gigs consulting for companies.

«I have an odd rhythm to my second - semester AP economics class, and the result is that my kids are fine until the AP exam — then they're ready to quit,» says Bushman.

She describes research conducted at West Point that found that students taking an introductory economics class where laptops or tablets were allowed performed substantially worse than students in classes where electronics were not allowed.

Wei: The correlation between taxes and consumption has been demonstrated in early economics classes for decades.

For my own part, I have been nursing a similar concept for perhaps 25 years, which I had first conceived in a sophomore economics class back in College in the early 80's, when the ideas of externalities and market failure came together for me.

But then, spurred by the worry of earning enough money after college, he took his first economics class, as a prerequisite for becoming a business major.

In Erin Bozek's 10th - grade economics class, two students try to convince her that a recent episode of the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants demonstrates the free market principles of supply and demand.

Levitt decided that since he was conducting the empirical study of prostitution, he should add a lecture to his University of Chicago economics class about that research.

About one to two percent of people in the general population are psychopaths (that percentage is higher in prisons, boardrooms, and undergrad economics classes).

Just as in political science classes teachers challenged a student's assumption that because his father was a Republican, so he should be, and just as in economics classes professors challenged a student's assumption that capitalism is without question the best of all economic systems, so in religious studies teachers challenged students to examine their received traditions concerning Christianity.

Harrison taught agricultural economics classes at the University of Georgia before starting his own egg business in 1949.

The night before the team had left for Austin, students in a Bowie home economics class stayed up late preparing hard - boiled eggs for the players to eat on the trip.

«TANSTAAFL», the acronym for «There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch», may be familiar to those of you who have taken a college economics class or two.

Most notably his schedule includes an entry - level economics class instructed by a deadpan professor (hilariously played by George Takei) and a public speaking course taught by Mrs. Tainot (Julia Roberts).

Student Engagement Matters: Active Learning in an Undergraduate Health Economics Class Affected Learning Outcomes December 1, 2016 Ingenta Connect

Studies of high school economics classes showed that students taught with project - based units not only learned more economics content, but they also learned to be better problem solvers in economics (Finkelstein, Hanson, Huang, Hirschman, & Huang, 2010; Mergendoller, Maxwell, & Bellisimo, 2006).

Ms. Smith, a social studies teacher at a high school in the Midwest, teaches a three - week unit on Business Forms and The Global Economy in her semester - long economics class.

A Fireproof Home for the Bride has the charm of detail that will drop readers into its time and place: the home economics class lecture on cuts of meat, the group date to the diner, the small - town movie theater popcorn for a penny.

But the most frosty time I have had in economics was 27 years ago, when I argued to my development economics class that people in the third world were rational in the number of kids that they had, because they had no way to save for their old age.

Are you ready for your Travel Hacking Economics Class?

A similar experiment at West Point (U.S. Military Academy) divided an introductory economics class into three categories — electronics allowed, electronics not allowed, and tablets face - up on the table where professors could see them.

Because of some disastrous economics classes I was required take, my GPA is not looking good.

With home economics classes becoming a thing of the past, and technology becoming more and more prevalent, it seems most kids would rather be attached to their gadgets than learning important life skills

States are catching on to the need for more economics classes, but progress has been slow.

Which is about what you would expect, since the Ross - Navarro trade policy analysis is based on a mistake that would get you flunked out of an AP economics class.

Don't spend time creating another PowerPoint for Economics class.

I am beginning to think that non-economists have a better chance of understanding economics than most economists do, because they are free from the indoctrination that comes in the early economics classes where they teach you to assume away all reality, and assume that all men are maximizers of utility or profits, and that the world is radically simple, when it is really very messy.

She said she burst into tears during her law and economics class at the College of Staten Island on Monday when she first heard that the Dream Act could be removed from the budget.

All West Point students take a semester - long, introductory economics class, taught by professors in sections of no more than twenty students.

The last time I sewed a pillow was in Mrs. Lindstrom's 7th grade home economics class!

I always think back to my high school economics class, which is where I first heard the phrase «there's no such thing as a free lunch».

I was taught in economics class (way back when) that policy moves that were anticipated had no effect.

Econ 101 — even for people who've never attended an economics class — has become a fundamental part of our vocabulary.

This is taught in most first year economics classes, and you will test it under every conceivable permutation and combination of assumptions if you take an environmental economics class.

Rava goes on to argue that the women - only show «repudiated hundreds of years of women's struggles to be viewed as being equal to men and is typical of old - fashioned sexism that might also advise a young woman that her best chance for a happy life is to ace her home economics class and learn how to make a queso dip from Velveeta to catch a good man.»

Which is about what you would expect, since the Ross / Navarro trade policy analysis is based on a mistake that would get you flunked out of an AP economics class.