Economics 366 - Economic Development
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Luis Angel Monroy Gomez Franco
TU TH 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
77529
Machmer Hall room W-24
lmonroygomez@umass.edu
This course provides an intermediate introduction to the topic of economic development, focusing on the relationship between economic growth, structural change, international insertion, and the expansion of the effective freedom of a country?s population. Besides relying on the student?s previous knowledge in microeconomics and macroeconomics, the course will introduce the student to the theoretical models and concepts specific to development economics, as well as to certain quantitative methods useful for the analysis of the process of economic development.
ECON 104 & 103/RESEC 102 Open only to Primary majors in ECON/STPEC/RESEC/MGRECON through November 17, then open to all.