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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102B or consent of instructor. Examines issues on the boundary of economics and philosophy. Topics include social choice theory and economic justice; foundations of utility theory, rational choice, and economic welfare; epistemology and the philosophies of science of Popper, Kuhn, and others. Cross-listed with PHIL 119.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 or ECON 002H, ECON 003; or ECON 004. Provides a broad survey of issues relating to the development of the U.S. economy and especially its contemporary structure. Incorporates issues relating to both macro- and microeconomic phenomena, with a focus on questions that are of particular relevance to current policy.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 or ECON 002H or ECON 003 or ECON 004 or consent of instructor. An economic analysis of legal institutions and their evolution, including the areas of property laws, contract law, tort law, and criminal law.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 6 hours; individual study, 6 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. In-depth study of selected influential writers or a school of writers on economics or political economy. Emphasis is on selected writers' relations to other schools and other writers. Offered in summer only.
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2.00 Credits
for hours and prerequisites, see segment descriptions. In-depth discussion of a book that is not a textbook that offers important insights into economic issues.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 15 hours per quarter; written work, 15 hours per quarter. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 or ECON 002H, ECON 003; or ECON 004. Focuses on the Populist Movement, the rise of William Jennings Bryan's thirdparty presidential bid, and the contemporary political struggle regarding management of the U.S. money supply.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 15 hours per quarter; individual study, 15 hours per quarter. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 (or ECON 002H), ECON 003; or ECON 004; or consent of instructor. Explores the history of biotechnology. Covers the impact on standards of living, the distribution of welfare, and the pace and pattern of economic growth. Topics include the origin of agriculture, the Columbian Exchange, the dwarfing of wheat and rice, hybrid corn, and the adoption of genetically modified crops.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 15 hours per quarter; individual study, 15 hours per quarter. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 (or ECON 002H), ECON 003; or ECON 004; or consent of the instructor. What caused the great stock market crash of 1929? Did the market crash cause the Great Depression of the 1930s? What were some of the economic and social consequences? Can it happen again? Explores these and related questions from the most significant economic disruption in American economic history.
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2.00 Credits
for hours and prerequisites, see segment descriptions. An in-depth examination of a current economic issue.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 15 hours per quarter; written work, 15 hours per quarter. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 or ECON 002H, ECON 003; or ECON 004. Examines the origin and nature of migrant flows, their implications for the economic development of Mexico, and impacts on U.S. labor markets, income and wage inequality, provision of social services, and the evolution of government policy.
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