Economics (ECON)

Formerly ECON 2 & ECON 1B. An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.

Formerly ECON 2H and ECON 1BH. An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies. This is an honors course.

Formerly ECON 1 and ECON 1A. An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies.

Formerly ECON 1H and ECON 1AH. An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. This is an honors course.

This course is a survey of economic principles, both micro and macro. This course is designed to provide non-economics and non-business majors a foundation in economics.

This course offers an economic analysis of contemporary questions including environmental, institutional, and multicultural issues. The class will determine the role of economies, as a social science, assisting in understanding causes, effects, and possible policies for current problems. The instructional emphasis is on the relationship of basic tools of economic analysis and their application to current economic problems.

This course examines the location and organization of international economic activities from an economic, cultural, political, and environmental perspective. Topics covered by a faculty team drawn from economics and geography include the spatial distribution of resources and production, global flows of information, capital and labor, and regional inequalities such as income distribution, poverty, discrimination and standard of living. This class is recommended for students in business, social science and liberal arts with an interest in global and international issues, including regional and social inequalities, marketing and international trade, and tourism. This course is not open to students registered in or with credit in GEOG 5.