Explore changes to trade theories over time. Use examples of early trade theories, later trade theories and more current approaches to trade theory in your discussion.

The stock market was rallying and going up during early May while bad news for the economic macro indicators were pouring in. Isn't that surprising? Can you explain this?

Compare the public reaction to a recent emerging epidemic – for example ebola in 2014, swine flu in 2009, or SARS in 2003 – to the reaction to AIDS when it was first identified in the early 1980s.

Evaluate critically: NPR reported that some newspapers that increased their size in the early 90’s were recently reversing that decision by making their operations smaller (this is an application of the previous question).

How are the gradients of maternal and zygotic proteins established during early embryogenesis in Drosophila? Explain how these genes control the expression of GAP genes along the AP axis of Drosophila.

Compare Islam and Christianity. How did the two arise? How are the faiths alike, and how are they different? How were Christian and Muslim states governed in the early Middle Ages?

What led to the demise of ‘conventional Keynesian wisdom’ in the mid 1970s and why did the theory of rational expectations make the ‘monetarist experiment’ in the early 1980s more attractive to politicians?

Briefly compare the following early contingency theories:

a. Fiedler’s LPC contingency model

b. Fiedler’s cognitive resource theory

c. Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory

Briefly compare the following early contingency theories:

a. Fiedler’s LPC contingency model

b. Fiedler’s cognitive resource theory

c. Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory