This assessment is designed to apply the knowledge and skills developed by students in evaluating the role of systems thinking in global and local sustainability challenges. You have been assigned a case study on the LMS, and must answer the following questions in relation to the case:

Using the Iceberg model, explain if and how systems thinking might be useful in addressing the wickedness of the problem. (500 words).

The city of Selma (like most other cities) contracts with a single garbage collection firm, Alamo Waste Inc., which has been given an exclusive franchise to pick up trash in the city. However, Mr. Foo L. Noone has proposed an alternative scheme. He suggests that the city government should divide the city into several, much smaller areas. Then it should allow numerous small companies that would like to get into the business of collecting trash to competitively bid for garbage collection in these areas. The government would then allow the lowest bidder to service the area.   

      Suppose that the city government has estimated the price residents are willing to pay for various numbers of garbage collections per month and the total costs per resident as shown in the following table.

1. Complete the above table.

2. How much are the fixed costs per month of garbage collection per resident in any given        area?

C.   Given that the current garbage collection firm has a monopoly what is the current number of collections per resident and the price charged residents for each collection? What is the economic profit received from each resident by the monopoly firm. Show your work.

D. If competitive bidding were allowed and a competitive market for garbage collection services developed, what would be the number of collections per month and the price charged per resident per collection? What is the economic profit received from each resident by the competitive firms?

E.   Draw an appropriate graph of your solutions to parts B and C and insert your numbers onto the graph. Based on the above analysis should the city government implement Mr. Noone's proposal? Briefly explain your answer.

7. Research Questions Choose one of the questions below and write a short essay. No longer than 500 words.

1. Why has income inequality increased over time in emerging economies (China, Russia, etc.) What are some of the explanations for this increase?

2. Has intergenerational mobility increased or decreased over time within advanced economies?

The Economic Problem is a fundamental problem of Economics

Write an 800 words essay about this.

Identify the key concepts relevant to answering the question

Links these concepts together and logically to make an argument that runs through the whole essay.

•             State the main theoretical concepts - Definitions ( Expect min 4 max of 5)
•             Explain briefly how each theoretical concept defined works           
•             Illustrate the theory – for the main concepts draw a Graphs or a Diagram
•             Use examples from real world
•             Evaluation - Do these theories always works in real world

Suppose that the world price for a good is 50, and the domestic demand and supply curves are given by the following equations:

D^X: P^D=100-4Q^D S^X: P^S=10+6Q^S

1. How much is consumed? How much is produced domestically? What are the values of producer and consumer surplus?
2. If a 5% import tariff is imposed, by how much do consumption and domestic production change? What is the change in consumer and producer surplus? How much revenue does the government earn from the tariff?
3. What is the net national cost of the tariff? Show your results through a graphical representation.

The Economic Problem is a fundamental problem of Economics

Write an 800 words essay about this.

Identify the key concepts relevant to answering the question

Links these concepts together and logically to make an argument that runs through the whole essay.

•             State the main theoretical concepts - Definitions ( Expect min 4 max of 5)
•             Explain briefly how each theoretical concept defined works           
•             Illustrate the theory – for the main concepts draw a Graphs or a Diagram
•             Use examples from real world
•             Evaluation - Do these theories always works in real world

Answer the following three questions. You can use any reference to write your answers (e.g., textbook, articles, internet web pages, etc.). However, you have to use your own words. No Cheating. No plagiarism.

1. Your boss told you that he wants to put you on charge of the opening ceremony for company new plant in Jeddah. He gives you the authority to choose your team members and to make all necessary decisions. The ceremony will be held on October 30th. Explain in details how are you going to manage your team throughout the assignment.

2. One day you came back home to find your older brother setting there. You asked him: “Why did you come early from work?” He replied: ”I did not go to work today.” You noticed that he was frustrated and nervous. Obviously, his job satisfaction is low. Using what you have learned from this course, explain in details what are the possible reasons for his dissatisfaction.

3. You have decided to become the president of the student club at the college. Based on what you have learned from the topics of leadership, power & politics, and conflict & negotiation, explain in details how you are going to practice your leadership role as the club president.

The length of your answers shall not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for each question).  

The Economic Problem is a fundamental problem of Economics

Write an 800 words essay about this.

Identify the key concepts relevant to answering the question

Links these concepts together and logically to make an argument that runs through the whole essay.

•             State the main theoretical concepts - Definitions ( Expect min 4 max of 5)
•             Explain briefly how each theoretical concept defined works           
•             Illustrate the theory – for the main concepts draw a Graphs or a Diagram
•             Use examples from real world
•             Evaluation - Do these theories always works in real world

Give 3 examples of situations that describe why the relationship between social, economic and ecological aspects are important to achieve a sustainable development

1. Define and discuss job discrimination, equal opportunity employment, affirmative action, and the relationship between them.
2. Discuss how the decline of unions in the private sector and their growth in the public sector is related to organizational design.

Is Brexit a unique British choice of a beginning of the dissolution of the EU? What will be the consequences of hard Brexit in the rest of the EU?

1. What were the causes of Brexit?

1. Consider the labor supply and labor demand functions below, where w is the hourly wage and h is the hours worked per day.

Labor supply: w=5+2.5´h

Labor demand: w=26-0.5´h

1. Compute the daily profit of the firm assuming that other factors of production are all costless. Show all the steps. Also, draw the labor supply and labor demand lines, and identify the economic profit area. (15 points)

2. What if labor demand is less elastic; e.g., labor demand: w=26-h? Would daily profit increase? Show all the steps. (15 points)

2. An economy consists of two regions, the North and the South. The short-run elasticity of labor demand in each region is –0.75. Labor supply is perfectly inelastic within both regions. The labor market is initially in an economy-wide equilibrium, with 400,000 people employed in the North and 200,000 in the South at a wage of $10 per hour. Suddenly, 5,000 people immigrate from abroad and initially settle in the South. They possess the same skills as the native residents and also supply their labor inelastically.

1. What will be the effect of this immigration on wages in each of the regions in the short run before any migration between the North and the South occurs? Illustrate the changes using labor demand and labor supply graphs. (15 points)

2. Suppose 1,000 native-born persons per year migrate from the South to the North in response to every dollar differential in the hourly wage between the two regions. What will be the ratio of wages in the two regions after the first year native labor responds to the entry of the immigrants? (10 points)

3. Consider the following production function: Y=0.075´E^0.75´K^0.25 for a developing country, where Y is the output, E is labor input and K is capital input. Instead of thinking of immigration from a developing to a developed country, suppose a developed country invests large amounts of capital (foreign direct investment, or FDI) in our developing country.

1. How does an increase in FDI affect labor productivity in the developing country? How will wages respond in the short-run? (15 points)

2. What are the long-run implications of FDI, especially in terms of potential future immigration from the developing country? (10 points)

Why we may say that Germany plays the same role for the EU as China does for the USA in terms of trade and financial flows (BOP)? What is unique about the middle and small German enterprises.

What were the provisions of the “Maastricht Treaty”? Which countries broke the convergence criteria of the treaty and what does it mean for the future of the Eurozone?