Analysis of theories of determination of national income, aggregate employment, and the price level. Monetary and fiscal policy. Inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.

Analysis of theories of determination of national income, aggregate employment, and the price level. Monetary and fiscal policy. Inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.

Analysis of theories of determination of national income, aggregate employment, and the price level. Monetary and fiscal policy. Inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.

Introduction to the economics of markets and market economies. Basic concepts of demand, supply, production, prices, allocation of resources, and distribution of income. Public policy applications. (Gen.Ed. SB)

This course uses piracy as a lens to explore how economies are organized outside of and in opposition to state regulation. We will explore how piracy functions as economic justice and economic warfare, and the organization of political economy within pirate communities. With piracy as a springboard, the course will go on to examine a number of different forms of illicit economic activity including smuggling, counterfeiting, human trafficking and gun running.

Economics and the Literary Imagination, is a literature course with economic themes. Readings include Thomas More's /Utopia/, a 16th-century fantasy about a land with no exchange and no shortages, full employment and plenty of leisure time; Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," the only Shakespeare play in which the title character is a business-oriented capitalist; John Steinbeck's /Grapes of Wrath/, an epic novel of the Dust Bowl and migrant workers in the Depression, heavy with

Policy decisions involved in efforts of underdeveloped countries to induce development. Prerequisite: ECON 765.

Theories of economic growth applied to Third World countries. Classical and Neoclassical economic theories and structural/historical theories. Topics such as the role of foreign investment and multinational corporations, and strategies of industrialization and employment creation, and rural development. Prerequisites: ECON 103 or RESECON 102 and ECON 104.

Economic theory of the macro-economy. Determinants of unemployment rates, inflation rates, national income, GDP. Tools of public policy available which can be used to promote macroeconomic goals. (Gen.Ed. SB)

This two-semester Capstone Course offers a multidisciplinary exploration of interactions between people and environment, and the social and political institutions affecting these interactions. The main focus of the course is on the governance of common-pool resources (CPRs).