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Bekar Content: The tools of cooperative and noncooperative game theory. Modeling competitive situations, solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium and its refinements, signaling games, repeated games under different informational environments, bargaining models, issues of cooperation and reputation, evolutionary game theory. Application to economics and other disciplines. Emphasis on quantitative modeling and analytical approaches to strategic thinking. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: The operation of the financial sector and its interrelationship with the productive sector. The central institutions of money and banks; the Federal Reserve System and its operation of monetary policy. Keynesian, post-Keynesian, and monetarist theories and their policy implications. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Hart-Landsberg Content: Problems of less-developed countries and proposed solutions. Extent and nature of international poverty and inequality, national and international causes of underdevelopment, strategies for development. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Opportunities for well-prepared students to put academic concepts and techniques to work in the private or public sector. Specific activities vary; usually involve work with a public agency or private group. Prerequisites: Economics 100 or 210. Consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 2-4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Hart-Landsberg Content: Critical connections among different economic structures and dynamics, on one hand, and political strategies and struggles for change, on the other. Economic crisis theory, theories of the state, class and class consciousness, labor, and social movement struggles. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Bekar Content: Emergence of modern economic growth in Europe. The roots of the Industrial Revolution over the very long term, 1000 to 1750, through the application of basic economic theory. Causes and consequences of very long-term economic growth. Specific attention paid to technology, institutions, geography, and culture as sources of economic growth. While the geographic focus is European, important cross-sectional work, especially with regard to China, is undertaken. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Bekar Content: Europe's transition from an agricultural to an industrial society in the 18th century. The roots of modern economic growth in preindustrial Europe, the contributions of science and technology, trade, government, and population. Consequences of industrialization for living standards, both long-run improvements and short-run hardships. Rise of European power abroad and colonial contributions to growth. Focus on the British Industrial Revolution. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Goodstein Content: An analysis of environmental and resource problems ranging from hazardous waste disposal to air pollution, species extinction to global warming, from an economic perspective. The property-rights basis of pollution problems, environmental ethics, benefit-cost analysis, regulatory policy, clean technology, population growth and consumption, sustainable development. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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O'Sullivan Content: Basic economic analysis to explore issues facing the Pacific Northwest. Diagnosis of the problem motivating a policy and evaluation of the merits of the policy solution. Potential issues: financing public education, promoting economic development, protecting natural resources, designing mass transit, providing public support for professional sports, responding to gentrification. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Hart-Landsberg Content: Causes and (national and regional) consequences of Japan's economic development. Political, social, and cultural underpinnings of Japanese capitalism; state policies, state-corporate relations, and labor relations system; social and environmental problems and responses; political and economic relations with East Asia. Prerequisite: Economics 100. Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
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