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  • PBPL 21800: Economics and Environmental Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: ECON 19800 or higher,or PBPL 20000. This course combines basic microeconomic theory and tools with contemporary environmental and resources issues and controversies to examine and analyze public policy decisions. Theoretical points include externalities, public goods, common-property resources, valuing resources, benefit/cost analysis, and risk assessment. Topics include pollution, global climate change, energy use and conservation, recycling and waste management, endangered species and biodiversity, nonrenewable resources, congestion, economic growth and the environment, and equity impacts of public policies. S. Shaikh. Autumn.
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  • PBPL 22100: Politics and Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PBPL 22100-22200-22300 may be taken in or out of sequence. Public policy choices interact with politics in obvious ways (e.g., elections) but also in subtler ways, turning especially on how organizations work and what governs persuasion and belief. This course surveys some key aspects of these interactions. H. Margolis. Autumn.
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  • PBPL 22200: Public Policy Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: PBPL 20000 or ECON 20000. PBPL 22100-22200-22300 may be taken in or out of sequence. Not intended for students majoring in public policy who are planning to specialize in economics or to take advanced economics courses; these students should meet with the program director to arrange an alternative. This course reviews and augments the basic tools of microeconomics developed in ECON 20000 and applies these tools to policy problems. We examine situations in which private markets are likely to produce unsatisfactory results, suggesting a potential rationale for government intervention. Our goal is to allow students to comprehend, develop, and respond to economics arguments when formulating or evaluating public policy. J. Leitzel. Winter.
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  • PBPL 22300: Problems of Public Policy Implementation

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: One prior 20000-level social sciences course. PBPL 22100-22200-22300 may be taken in or out of sequence. Once a governmental policy or program is established, there is the challenge of getting it carried out in ways intended by the policy makers. We explore how obstacles emerge because of problems of hierarchy, competing goals, and cultures of different groups. We then discuss how they may be overcome by groups, as well as by creators and by those responsible for implementing programs. We also look at varying responses of target populations. R. Taub. Spring.
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  • PBPL 23000: Organizational Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    This course is a systematic introduction to theoretical and empirical work on organizations broadly conceived (e.g., public and private economic organizations, governmental organizations, prisons, professional and voluntary associations, health-care organizations). Topics include intraorganizational questions about organizational goals and effectiveness, communication, authority, and decision making. Using recent developments in market, political economy, and neoinstitutional theories, we explore organizational change and interorganizational relationships for their implications in understanding social change in modern societies. E. Laumann. Autumn.
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  • PBPL 23100: Environmental Law

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor. This lecture/discussion course examines the development of laws and legal institutions that address environmental problems and advance environmental policies. Topics include the common law background to traditional environmental regulation, the explosive growth and impact of federal environmental laws in the second half of the twentieth century, regulations and the urban environment, and the evolution of local and national legal structures in response to environmental challenges. Autumn.
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  • PBPL 23200: The Economics of Crime

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: ECON 20100 required; ECON 21000 or STAT 22000 strongly recommended. This course uses theoretical and empirical economic tools to analyze a wide range of issues related to criminal behavior. Topics include the police, prisons, gang behavior, guns, drugs, capital punishment, labor markets and the macroeconomy, and income inequality. We emphasize the analysis of the optimal role for public policy. This course is offered only in even numbered year. S. Levitt. Winter.
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  • PBPL 23600: Political Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in social sciences. This course provides analytical perspectives on citizen preference theory, public choice, group theory, bureaucrats and state-centered theory, coalition theory, elite theories, and political culture. These competing analytical perspectives are assessed in considering middle-range theories and empirical studies on central themes of political sociology. Local, national, and cross-national analyses are explored. T. Clark. Spring.
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  • PBPL 24400: Is Development Sustainable

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing required; background in environmental issues not required. This discussion course grapples with the "big problem" of sustainable development. We analyze problematical issues underlying population growth, resource use, environmental transformation, and the plight of developing nations through a consideration of economic, political, scientific, and cultural institutions and processes . Y. Fujita, G. Davis. Spring.
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