Assignment One: Unit Five

I decided to research Microeconomics taking it from one of my existing research topics on Economic systems. In Britannica Online I typed in Microeconomics into the search engine. I did the same for ProQuest as well as in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. With Britannica I got back thirty results, with ProQuest I got back twenty results, and with Viewpoints I only got back two results back. In the first two search engines the results were pretty on target with only a few results that weren't necessarily on target, but weren't necessarily off target. With Viewpoints the last result was only on target, but it didn't seem that the first result was on target. The only problem that I ran into while searching was having to select exactly what I typed in the search engine using ProQuest to get back less results from my search. I didn't have to change anything around in my searches because I never got over 100 results with my searches in all three databases. The most appropriate title that I selected was Methodological Considerations in Contemporary Economics. With the bibliographical information being :

• "economics." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 3 Nov. 2008 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-236766>.

The article gives an overview of economic theory and how economic institutions play a role in the economy. It also discusses a brief description about what macroeconomics is and what microeconomics is and the theory behind it. Two questions that I came to ask are what overall role does microeconomics play in the economics market, and how much of an influence do businesses have within microeconomics?