*EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN PARAGRAPHS LIKE AN OUTLINE TO A PAPER* AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF NON-COMPETE AGREEMENTS USING THE FORMAT WITH CREDIBLE RESOURCES AS EVIDENCE CITED AND DIRECTLY QUOTED THE THESIS FOR THE PAPER IS The Minnesota State Legislature should retract or amend the portion of the Omnibus Jobs Bill SF 3035 that banned non-compete agreements due to the risk of intellectual property theft and the sharing of trade secrets.

*EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN PARAGRAPHS LIKE AN OUTLINE TO A PAPER*

1. Economic Evaluation -(PHASE THREE)Ideas for course content CONNECTIONS WHEN WRITING: Scarcity, Core Principles (choices, opportunity costs, incentives, economic systems, voluntary trade, consequences), 3 Econ Questions (what to produce? how to produce? who gets what is produced?), Factors of production (land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship), Social goals (growth, efficiency, freedom, equity, stability, security), Production Possibilities Curve, Circular flow, Demand and determinants, Supply and determinants, competitive markets, surplus, shortage, market structures (monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly), market failures (competition, property rights, externalities), Macro indicators (GDP, Unemployment, Inflation), Business cycle, recessions, Fiscal policy (taxing and spending), Monetary policy (interest rates, open market operations)

1. Economic benefit(s) of thesis:
   1. Primary economic benefit (from thesis)
      1. Evidence CITED AND DIRECTLY QUOTED A P A FORMAT
   2. Secondary economic benefit (even if not in your thesis)
      1. Evidence CITED AND DIRECTLY QUOTED A P A FORMAT

1. Economic cost of thesis (counterclaim):
   1. Counterclaim 2: Economic reason NOT to pass the policy in your thesis (or to pass an alternative)

1. Rebuttal to counterclaim:
   1. Refuting the counterclaim (concede the point?)
      1. Evidence CITED AND DIRECTLY QUOTED A P A FORMAT