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ECON 409: Research Methodology and Empirical Studies

Batch 46, Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University

ASSIGNMENT: 02.
‘What has been your learning experience as a group in Assignment 1’?
Distributed: Tue Nov 10, 2020
Submission Deadline: 10.00 AM Sun, Nov 15, 2020
Submission Medium: FORMAL email to: [email protected]
Delayed submission: Will not be accepted
Attached Filename has to bear Assignment and Group Nos.
Example: Econ 409- 46- Assignment 02- Group 18
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ASSIGNMENT: 02
‘What has been your learning experience as a group in Assignment 01 in
Econ 409: Research Methodology and Empirical Studies’?
GUIDELINES
A. Your answer cannot exceed 700 words in text
B. You will have to mark each section, eg: Introduction; Learning
Experience; Conclusion etc
C. Assignment 02 will be your personal experience as a group.
Therefore, you do not need to give references. You do not need to
follow APA or any other format.
D. Your submission has to be analytic.
E. Your submission may be checked via Turnitin.
F. You have full freedom to express your views as a group.
G. You may start typing from the line below.

In the midst of a global pandemic, we got to do an assignment about


analyzing each component of a chosen article from a particular journal. After
switching over numerous papers we finally found an interesting article and
according to the preferable criteria, the journal seemed worthwhile too. And
we started analyzing the article titled as “Ecological economics for humanity’s
plague phase” published in March, 2020 on the 169th volume of the journal
“Ecological Economics”, written by William E. Rees, Professor Emeritus at the
University of British Columbia, Canada.

On the way of meeting expectation:


Keeping this global pandemic in our mind, from the very beginning we were
interested to go through a paper that discusses the possible economic outcome
in the near future after this massive plague phase happening worldwide. We
were enthusiastic about this idea of a massive change in economy from the
incident of economic paradigm shift led by the historical bubonic plague in
the European region. After that shock the class system changed, distribution
of wealth was reallocated and for the very first time the banking system was
introduced by the Medici family. However, we were advised not to be focused
on a single incident taking place 500 years ago, but to take a logical approach
considering all the incidents of plague that have influenced the economy
massively.
So we were searching for an overall discussion of the plague phase
influencing the economy in the most recent time, 2020. And we found this
article, “Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase” discussing about
the flaws in the current approach of Economic theories and as a result how we
are now paying the cost ecologically by going through a plague phase,
relating all the current major political crises, failed economic decisions and
our philosophy about Homo sapiens in general.

A new look about Research materials:


Before we went through this article, we’d only interact with a research paper
as an academic reference, i.e. the contents of papers were all that mattered.
But the way a paper is structured, the research is conducted and the way it is
being presented for a particular sector of audience was solely alien to all of us.
We always correlated researching to analyzing datasets and implying
methods to sort them out and providing results at the very end, although we
had heard about qualitative methods but hadn’t interacted with any. Our
selected article happened to be a qualitative research paper where we saw the
way ending results have been derived, the thematic explanations to reach a
decision over lots of subsections and eventually yielding a revolutionary
thought as the author describes himself. We also tried to gather some
background knowledge about qualitative approaches for that matter, which
surely have widened our vision in relation to Researching and the ways it can
be conducted.
We learnt where to find the what, why and how’s of a paper, the importance
of an effective presentation within word limits, learnt about the ranking
norms i.e. the impact factor, SJR rankings, CiteScore and how to measure
them and what is their importance. We had no idea even the referencing
section used to have so many formats and also how important the depth of
literature reviews can even be. The process reminded us of all those papers we
had studied as references all these years and we are looking forward to
discovering a lot of new angles to this same research paper we have claimed
to analyze, as we realized how little the eyes had met the content in the past
days.

Overcoming technical challenges and embracing the blessings:


Although the pandemic format of studying and attending classes has a flavor
of isolation per se, we enjoyed some advantages of this situation too. We
could go through the instructions over and over as we had the whole class
recorded; fortunately all our members had continuous network availability.
However, we had to manage our discussions in a very unusual way, had to
keep our individual ways of exploring on check so that we don’t end up being
too different to merge our effort on the final stage and edit our work over and
over again as direct group work and figuring everything out on one take
seemed not possible in this set up. In the end we could reach a point where we
were satisfied with the final draft of the Assignment 01.

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