ECON Economics in the Information Age
The topic of the paper is the role of regulation in hampering the performance of the economy. You cannot
choose a different topic. Read the articles attached and any others you find on the subject that you want to
add. All of the articles you read for the paper must be listed in the Bibliography of your paper.
The paper you write must be based on the articles provided, which means you cannot choose your own topic
for this paper. Write about 4 pages of narrative on the subject. The paper must be APA format, which means
a cover page, a reference page and 4 pages of narrative.
Your paper is to synthesize the issues presented in the articles and how you see the effects of regulations on
the economy.
Your paper must be submitted to the Assignments area for the Short Paper in order for it to be graded.
Your paper should avoid quoting any of the authors or articles you use. I am interested in your analysis of
ideas not some author’s.
You can research other articles on the subject if you choose, in addition to but not instead of, the ones
provided.
A new system for Turnitin, the plagiarism checker, has been implemented by the in the
classroom. This course is the first to test the system and we want to transition to the new system with as
little difficulty as possible. When you submit your paper to the Assignments area of the class, Turnitin is
embedded in the class will do a plagiarism check on your paper and produce a similarity score for your
submission. However, in the early implementation, the similarity score will be visible to the students that
submit papers. Because of this, you must be careful about not quoting or using someone else’s material.
The similarity score generated will be available and I will be monitoring the scores. You are permitted a
maximum of 15% similarity to outside sources. To keep below the limit, it is best not to put quotations from
any source in your paper. I am interested in your writing and not the writing someone else.
It would be better if you submitted the paper early. Thus, if the score is too high, you will have time to
rewrite to lower the score. By the way, there are plagiarism checkers out there that can be employed to check for yourself the similarity level of your work.
