Courses

• CAS EC 322: Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
  Examines the economic structure, institutional evolution, and political configuration in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Issues addressed include legacies of the colonial era, the impact of oil, and the problem of industrialization in resource-based economies.
• CAS EC 323: Behavioral Economics
  Introduction to a new field in economics that challenges the traditional model of rational decision-making and uses research in psychology to construct alternative models. Covers the theory of choice under certainty, uncertainty, and temptation; biases in judgment; social preferences.
• CAS EC 325: The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States
  Examines who is poor in the United States and how the evidence of poverty has changed over time. Various economic theories for the causes of poverty and discrimination are presented for examination and discussion.
• CAS EC 330: European Business Environment: Institutions and Enterprise
  (Meets with CAS IR 336 E.) Examines the contemporary infrastructure of British State and EU involvement in the economy via regulation, investment, security and defense. Introduction to EU perspective on competition policies, environment, agriculture, the single currency, and security policy. Lectures, discussion, field trip to Brussels.
• CAS EC 332: Market Structure and Economic Performance
  Structure of the American economy. The theory of imperfect competition. Topics include firm concentration and conglomeration, consumer ignorance and market failure, and advertising and technological change as part of market performance.
• CAS EC 333: Market Organization and Public Policy
  Discussion of selected markets determined by the instructor. Introduction to antitrust and regulatory policy.
• CAS EC 337: Economic Analysis of Legal Issues
  Economic analysis of current important legal issues. Contributions of economics to analysis of contracts, torts property, and crime. Effects of property rights on allocation of resources and distribution of income. Market and nonmarket schemes of regulating the environment.
• CAS EC 341: Monetary and Banking Institutions
  Survey of commercial and central banking institutions. Examination of macro relations between financial organizations and principal objectives of stabilization policy.
• CAS EC 355: Economics of the Workplace and Public Policy
  Analysis of economic theories of human resources management and labor relations as they relate to wage determination, human capital investment, and labor productivity. Analyzes public policies toward unions, collective bargaining, and workplace regulation using historical materials and contemporary cases.
• CAS EC 356: Economics of the Labor Market
  Application of current theories of labor supply and demand, wages, education and experience, immigration, labor efficiency, discrimination, and unemployment. Appraisal of the effects of government policies on labor markets.
• CAS EC 360: British Macroeconomic Policy
  Analysis of UK governance and economic policy formation. Exposition of UK?s changing trading relationship between its Empire and the EU, and the UK's current economic relationship with its former colonies.
• CAS EC 363: Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective
  (Meets with CAS AA 363.) 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 365: 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 367: Economics of the Public Sector
  Basic principles of public finance; consideration of classical and modern attitudes toward government revenues and expenditures. Survey of problems related to public debt and budget making. Evaluation of fiscal policy as an instrument of control.
• CAS EC 369: Economic Development of Latin America
  Contemporary issues of economic and social policy. Macroeconomic issues: inflation, stabilization, and the debt crisis. Foreign trade and economic restructuring. Poverty and income distribution. Role of the state.
• CAS EC 370: The Chinese Economy
  Introduces the working of the Chinese economy. Combines historical-institutional and theoretical- quantitative approaches to study the transformation of China's economy into a market economy with special characteristics.
• CAS EC 371: Environmental Economics
  Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment.
• CAS EC 372: Irish Economy
  
• CAS EC 377: Government, Business, and Labor
  Examines economic growth from the perspective of the structure, conduct, and performance of business. Combines economic theories of conduct and strategy with industry case studies and evaluates the effect of government policy toward business and labor on the performance of the economy.
• CAS EC 379: Firms, Markets, and Economic Development
  Examines the interlinked roles of business and politics in the process of economic development, with the objective of providing a framework for understanding how the private and public sectors work together to help (or impede) economic growth.

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