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4.00 Credits
Functions of the urban economy: the market sector and the public sector. Economic analysis of issues such as land use, environmental quality, transportation, housing, income distribution, and the organization and financing of urban public services.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of the role of the state in a competitive economy. Development of decision rules for state economic action. Includes a detailed study of the principles of voting, public budgeting including cost benefit analysis and PPBS, the theory of fiscal federalism and the theory and principles of public debts.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the rationale, economic principles and institutions of historic economic regulation. Contemporary theory of the firm and microeconomic pricing are analyzed. Technological changes suggest that to achieve economic efficiency it may no longer be necessary or appropriate to subject energy and telecommunications firms to traditional utility regulation. There is academic enthusiasm for displacing economic regulation with competition. Deregulation and restructuring are explored with emphasis on contemporary issues in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the nation. In particular, difficulties in transformation to the marketplace will be examined. Expert guest lecturers from the utility and regulatory communities will be scheduled, and contemporary scholarly literature will be reviewed.
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4.00 Credits
The study of the multinational (transnational) enterprise as a form of direct foreign investment. Analysis of theories of direct investment; the impact of the multinational enterprise on the national and international economy and the relationship of such firms to the concept of the nation-state.
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4.00 Credits
Considers the contributions of seminal thinkers to what is regarded as an alternate or heterodox school in economic science. Contribution of Thornstein Veblen, John R. Commons, Wesley Mitchell, Simon Kuznets, Clarence Ayres, Gunnar Myrdal, and John Kenneth Galbraith, as well as more contemporary thinkers will be explored. Institutional theory will be compared and contrasted with neoclassical economics, and shown as a viable theory posing a formidable challenge to the dominant paradigm of orthodoxy. Neo-institutionalist challenges will also be considered.
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4.00 Credits
General survey of empirical techniques useful for economic analysis. Focus on the applications of mathematical tools and regression analysis in economics. Quantitative topics will be introduced systematically with hands-on case studies and examples related to the fields of economics, public policy, and urban studies. This course will not be counted as credit for economics graduate students, but may be taken by graduate students in other programs.
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4.00 Credits
Mathematics for economists. Applications of differential calculus and matrix algebra to economics. Topics include consumer theory, production functions, and applied general equilibrium models.
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4.00 Credits
Main theory and empirical methodologies for assessing costs and benefits of projects with varying timeframes and levels of uncertainty. Focus on public projects, including environmental, infrastructure and social service activities. Methodologies for valuation of nonmarketed goods, such as environmental services, also covered. Prerequisite: EC 201.
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1.00 Credits
See department for course description.
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4.00 Credits
Different economic theoretical perspectives are presented to account for women’s economic roles currently and historically. Emphasis on women’s responsibility for child rearing and housework; women’s relatively low wages; occupational segregation by gender; economic differences among women due to ethnicity, generation, and class; and policy issues with particular importance for women’s economic situation.
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