lol u failed. you dont talk about the author's ambition, you talk about Victor Frankenstein's and Tyrell's ambition to be creator and cause scientific progress. you're going to get such a bad mark and you should feel bad about that since the question was so obvious.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if they added an "impacts of globalisation on the global economy" essay
just because it's unexpected and not been examined tooo recently
Law of diminishing marginal returns can help you answer this haha
You can spend your time knowing 100% of the syllabus, with the last 10% or so being the hardest and taking the longest. So much so that learning that final 10% takes the same time as learning the other 90%.
Or you can spend...
My predictions, top 5 essays in order based on current events and past essays:
1. labour market policy (not asked since 2007)
2. environment essay (carbon tax effects showing now, also no environment question in SA for ages)
3. international orgs and trade bloc agreements (catholic paper + not...
IMO in the search for true religion I think it's a fair call to eliminate all religions other than Islam, Christianity and Judaism immediately (sorry) because these religions are supported by so much evidence, however obviously I believe it's necessary to eliminate further.
Once you make the...
If you can, get your hands on John Bulmer books. theyre not very common, but really good and have complex stuff in them.
Otherwise, get Riley or Dixon or both. Riley is better IMO, it has more stats, but Dixon is more simple.
I would 100% say Mongolia. Reasons:
- 17.3% growth rate 2011
- extreme export reliance on primary industries (mining, agriculture)
- very interesting history with communism and market transition
- between China and Russia
- huge direct investment into its mining industry recently - mining boom...
Causes
1. Fundamental asymetries of information in the financial markets (read some of J. Stiglitz' stuff about it). Problems with financial products such as risk and liquidity are factored into the price, so it doesnt matter if there are problems as long as investors know there are problems...
just do a few dot points, write and then cut down.
the fallacy many writers find themselves in is where they write something, and they think that every word is pure gold, so they find it impossible to cut stuff. learn to be brutal when cutting stuff, simplify as MUCH as possible. ur an idiot
yea what ozko is saying, when the GFC hit, there was a mass flock to safe assets - US and German treasury bonds, because in a world where the American/German bond market defaults or w/e, the whole world is screwed. Since our cash rate would be higher than those of a depressed economy - not...
lol i saw this article before it was cool. but srsly...
although the big mac index may seem like a good indicator of currency value considering how many different factors of production are used in the production of a single big mac e.g. white and blue collar labour, young people labour...
yea, its a fun quiz, you should do it next year. if you logon to the australian economics competition website, you can try a past paper. its quite difficult, but fun.
i think that cramming on economics has little point to it in the way most people do it i.e. reading textbook, notes, highlighting etc.
the best way you can learn topics is by watching youtube videos - it gets me good marks. its the most time efficient way to study imo.
many of the concepts...