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3.00 Credits
Independent study directed by the Earth and Environment staff. (Permission of chairperson) The Great Watersheds. Environmental Law.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to micro- and macroeconomics. Neoclassical models of economic behavior, market structures, and aggregate economic performance. Topics include: supply and demand analysis; consumer and business behavior; market structures (competition, monopoly, oligopoly) and failures: inflation and unemployment; government fiscal and monetary policies. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to economic institutions, history, and competing paradigms and ideologies in economics. Conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives; orthodox and heterodox economic theories. Topics include: the role of cultural, legal, economic, and political institutions; class, gender, and race; wealth and poverty; and the environment. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Marx's analysis of capitalism as an economic, social, and historical system. Areas covered are: market economies and alienation; exploitation and class conflicts; the working "class"; competitiveand monopolistic tendencies of capitalism; capitalist accumulation and economic crises; the role of the state; colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. Particular attention will be paid to the contemporary relevance of Marx's theory. Students are also introduced to the problems and methods of critical inquiry. Callari
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3.00 Credits
Aggregate economic activity: an examination of the factors that influence its level, stability, and rate of growth. Consumption, savings, investment, fiscal and monetary policy, and international trade and finance as influences on the level of prices, output, employment, and income. Prerequisites: ECO 100 and 103. A'Hearn, Flaherty
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3.00 Credits
The analytical foundations of neoclassical price theory: theory of the consumer; theory of the firm; market structure and efficiency; factor markets and income distribution; general equilibrium. Prerequisites: ECO 100 and 103. Flaherty, White, Dasgupta
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3.00 Credits
The analytical foundations of heterodox economic theories. Theoretical critiques of and alternatives to orthodox theories of: "factor" pricing and the distribution of income; macroeconomic dynamics ofgrowth and stability; the neutrality and exogeneity of money; gendered (and non-market) economic relations. Prerequisites: ECO 100 and 103. Callari, Zein-Elabdin
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to statistical concepts and techniques as used in economics. Topics include descriptive statistics, sampling, probability, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and regression analysis. Prerequisites: ECO 100 and 103. (ECO 210 is waived as a requirement for the economics major for students who have completed MAT 216) Brennan, A'Hearn
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3.00 Credits
Commercial and central banking in the United States, including: Federal Reserve responsibility for influencing economic activity; the role of money in determining the level of national income and prices; and the nature of the international monetary system. Prerequisite: ECO 100 and 103 Staff
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the economic forces that have shaped the formation and transformation of cities in history, with particular focus on urban patterns since the 18th century. Topics covered include the effects of technological change (in production, transportation, and marketing), urban sprawl, the role of "place" in the power dynamics and conflicts of capitalist societies, and the history of urbaneconomic-development public policy initiates in the U.S. Required work includes a term paper. Prerequisites: ECO 100 and ECO 103. Callari
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