| Poverty, health care, tax reform, international trade, crime, income inequality, inflation, and business mergers are some of the contemporary topics that raise interesting questions for public policy and economic analysis. This course will focus on a series of these macroeconomic and microeconomic topics. The goal is to develop economic concepts and analytical tools within a context of direct application to economic issues. Consideration of equity or fairness will be included in discussions of public policy. Student preferences will be considered in selecting many of the issues. This course fulfills the Social Analysis requirement in the core curriculum. Not open to students who have completed ECON 251 or 252. |
