Courses

• CAS EC 561: Public Economics I
  Applies microeconomic theory to public-policy decisions worldwide, using a methodology of applied welfare economics or cost-benefit analysis. Applications are to project evaluation, taxation, regulation, shadow pricing, privatization, policy impact analysis, and valuation of external effects such as pollution and congestion.
• CAS EC 562: Public Economics II
  Selected topics from recent experience of the United States and other countries, including efforts at tax reform, welfare programs, and analysis of other government expenditure programs.
• CAS EC 563: Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective
  (Meets with CAS AA 563.) Surveys the economic history of African Americans within the context of the development of the American and global economies. Topics include the economics of slavery; race and industrialization; the Great Migration; anti-discrimination legislation; and the historical origins of contemporary racial inequalities.
• CAS EC 565: Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective
  Historical development and role of institutions underlying market economies. Topics include contract enforcement and trading institutions, financial institutions, property rights in land, environmental resources such as water management and fisheries, economic infrastructure, regulation of labor, and capital markets.
• CAS EC 566: History of Public Finance and the Rise of the State in Europe
  Introduction to the history of public finance and expansion of the economic role of the state in Europe between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Applies economic tools to the analysis of political issues including distribution of wealth, revolution, and democratization.
• CAS EC 569: African American Economic History
  Introduction to current research in African American economic history. Topics include slavery and its aftermath, the long-term evolution of racial economic differences, segregation, voting rights, and anti-discrimination legislation. Also offered as CAS AA 569.
• CAS EC 571: Energy and Environmental Economics
  Environmental resources and markets characterized from physical, economic, and legal standpoints. Welfare arguments for public sector intervention. Methodologies for policy assessment and simulation analyzed, including project analysis, new technology, evaluation models, deterministic and econometric models.
• CAS EC 572: Public Control of Business
  Examines economic theory and case studies of antitrust policy, government regulation of private industry and operation of state owned enterprises. Case studies are drawn from both industrialized and developing countries.
• CAS EC 581: Health Economics I
  Demand for insurance and health care, moral hazard, and adverse selection. Supply of health care, quality and price competition. Physician agency, payment systems, capitation, risk management, and managed care. Emphasis on U.S. institutions, although concepts are relevant to other countries.
• CAS EC 591: International Economics
  Theory of international trade; empirical evidence from both industrialized and developing economies. The factor content of trade, technology and trade patterns, scale economies and imperfect competition, elements of economic geography. Policy interventions: tariffs, the exchange rate, trading blocs, and political economy of reform.
• CAS EC 595: International Finance
  Applies economic tools to open-economy macroeconomics. Topics include the determinants of the current account, exchange rate management, international capital markets, and growth in the world economy. Topical issues: the formation of the Euro; debt and financial crisis in developing countries.
• CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
  Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
• CAS EI 506: Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society
  Topic for Spring 2010: The History of the Book.
• CAS EI 507: Editing and Publishing
  An introduction to editing in a publishing context, looking at author-relations; kinds of book; internal construction; and methods, costs, and impact of the book’s physical realization.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  An introduction to editorial work in several disciplines, highlighting the practices, problems, and solutions encountered in each and identifying common principles where found. Editorial case histories in English literature, the Bible, classical texts, philosophical works, and music are considered.
• CAS EN 120: Freshman seminar in Literature
  Limited enrollment. Variable topics. Through discussions and frequent writing assignments, students develop skills in the close reading of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Satisfies CAS WR 100 requirement.
• CAS EN 121: Readings in World Literature
  Representative fiction, poetry, and drama by selected major figures in world literature. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• CAS EN 125: Readings in Modern Literature
  Representative fiction, poetry, and drama from modern Continental, British, and American writers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• CAS EN 127: Readings in American Literature
  Selected American writers from the Colonial period to the present. Prose and poetry representative of the American tradition. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.

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