Famous Mostly Dead Economist Project

Famous Mostly Dead Economist Project

1.  Adam Smith
2.  Jean-Baptiste Say
3.  Karl Marx
4.  Jon Maynard Keynes
5.  John Kenneth Galbraith
6.  Milton Friedman
7.  David Ricardo
8.  Paul Ehrlich
9.  Robert Heilbroner
10.  Michael Harrington
11.  William Beveridge
12.  Arthur F. Burns
13.  Leopold Kohr
14.  Irving Kristol
15.  Alan Greenspan
16.  Robert Reich
17.  Lawrence Klein
18.  Juanita Kreps
19.  Thomas Malthus
20.  Alfred Marshall
21.  Gunnar Myrdal
22.  Joan Robinson
23.  Paul A. Samuelson
24.  Simon Kuznets
25.  Theodore W. Schultz / 26.  Joseph A. Schumpeter
27.  Herbert A. Simon
28.  Thomas Sowell
29.  James Tobin
30.  Thorstein Veblen
31.  Sir William Arthur Lewis
32.  Walter Heller
33.  Paul Volcker
34.  Jacques (Lucien Jean) Delores
35.  William Stanley Jevons
36.  Friedrich August Von Hayek
37.  Carl Menger
38.  A.W. Phillips
39.  Irving Fischer
40.  Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
41.  Alan Blinder
42.  Robert M. Solow
43.  Stanley Fischer
44.  William Sharpe
45.  John Muth
46.  Edmund Phelps
47.  Joseph E. Stiglitz
48.  Anna Jacobson Schwartz
49.  Jeffrey Sachs

Requirements

You will need to provide the following information about your economist:

1.  When, where did s/he live?

2.  Where educated?

3.  Unusual life story/interesting aspect to life?

4.  Any famous book or other achievement?

5.  Identify the key principle this economist contributed to economic theory

6.  Explain that principle or contribution and tell where in our textbook it is discussed (page #)

7.  Make a colorful poster or other display illustrating the economist’s key principle or theory

8.  Make a 3-5 minute presentation where you will discuss 1-6 with an emphasis on 5 & 6

9.  During the presentations notes will be taken on 5 and 6—these will be collected when all presentations are complete (your teacher will provide a model)

10.  This project is 50 points (40 points for poster and presentation and 10 points for notes)

My presentation date is ______

Presentation Assessment

Project Name______
Date______/ Student Name(s)______
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______/ Period_____
Thoroughness/Completeness / possible______
(100%) 85-100% requirements met / ______
(85%) 70-84% / ______
(70%) 50-69% / ______
Less than 50% / ______
Product / possible______
(100%) 85-100% of requirements met / ______
(85%) 70-84% / ______
(70%) 50-69% / ______
Less than 50% / ______
Seriousness/Demeanor / possible______
100% / ______
70% / ______
0% / ______
Other / possible______
Total______