Courses

• CAS EC 551: Economics of Labor Markets
  Economic behavior of labor markets and labor market institutions in the United States. Wage determination, labor allocation, discrimination, economics of trade unions, and industrial relations. Implications of labor market behaviors for public policy.
• CAS EC 552: Economic Organization and Labor Markets
  Examines the role of market failures, economic power, and public policy in determining wages, human capital investments, and labor productivity. Neoclassical, new institutional, and organizational theories for analyzing the economics of labor markets are contrasted and evaluated using both quantitative and case study evidence.
• 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 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 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 EC 598: The Economics of Globalization
  Analyzes various facets of globalization from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, using tools from international trade theory. Topics include firm-level trade patterns, multinational production, foreign direct investment, the creation of global vertical supply chains, outsourcing, and offshoring.
• CAS EI 305: Manuscripts at Mugar
  Manuscripts, letters, rare books - literature, history, film, etc.- inspire our Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. M'scripts@mugar explores these for understanding and enjoyment. At Gotlieb and the Editorial Institute, undergraduates have their hands on originals, on editing, and on individual interests.
• CAS EI 491: Directed Study
  
• 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
  Topics vary by semester.
• CAS EI 507: Publishing Procedures
  The history, principles, theory and practices of book publication, focusing on scholarly and serious trade monographs and text books. Students acquire skills in proposals and contracts, copyediting, design, copyright and permissions, production, marketing, dissemination and reviews. Workshop setting.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.

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