This course will introduce you to the economic way of thinking and provides basic tools of economic theory used to study markets, individual consumer behavior, and the behavior of firms. It employs concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, tradeoffs, marginal thinking, and gains from trade. This course will examine how markets work and how supply and demand interact to determine prices, explore market failure such as externalities, the tragedy of the commons and public goods and the role of the government in market activity.

This course will introduce you to the economic way of thinking and provides basic tools of economic theory used to study markets, individual consumer behavior, and the behavior of firms. It employs concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, tradeoffs, marginal thinking, and gains from trade. This course will examine how markets work and how supply and demand interact to determine prices, explore market failure such as externalities, the tragedy of the commons and public goods and the role of the government in market activity.

This course will introduce you to the economic way of thinking and provides basic tools of economic theory used to study markets, individual consumer behavior, and the behavior of firms. It employs concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, tradeoffs, marginal thinking, and gains from trade. This course will examine how markets work and how supply and demand interact to determine prices, explore market failure such as externalities, the tragedy of the commons and public goods and the role of the government in market activity.

A study of how society's needs are satisfied with the limited resources available. Topics include contemporary issues such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, international dependencies, and how public policy deals with them. A critical understanding of the U.S. and global economies will enhance your value as a manager or executive of a business (whether for-profit or non-profit), as a family member dealing with jobs and financial decisions, and as a voter in a democracy.

A study of how society's needs are satisfied with the limited resources available. Topics include contemporary issues such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, international dependencies, and how public policy deals with them. A critical understanding of the U.S. and global economies will enhance your value as a manager or executive of a business (whether for-profit or non-profit), as a family member dealing with jobs and financial decisions, and as a voter in a democracy.

A study of how society's needs are satisfied with the limited resources available. Topics include contemporary issues such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, international dependencies, and how public policy deals with them. A critical understanding of the U.S. and global economies will enhance your value as a manager or executive of a business (whether for-profit or non-profit), as a family member dealing with jobs and financial decisions, and as a voter in a democracy.

This course analyzes how savers and borrowers meet in financial markets to allocate resources to their most productive uses. Major topics include the theory of pricing of financial assets, equilibrium determination of asset prices, risk and term structures of interest rates, how moral hazard and adverse selection inhibit credit allocation, fundamentals of commercial banking, and central bank policies.

The course is an introduction to strategic decision making and game theory. Ideas such as Nash equilibrium, dominant strategies, evolutionary stability, and asymmetric information are applied to a variety of strategic decision making problems taken from economics, computer science, politics, and biology.

This course explores the theoretical foundations of International Trade including the basics of why countries trade, factors that explain the pattern of trade, the effects of trade on welfare and the distribution of income, and various policy issues. The course also provides an examination of topics in International Finance such as how international financial markets are structured and how currencies across countries relate to each other in foreign exchange markets.

This class will focus on the role of the environment and related issues in the theory and practice of economics. Topics covered include externalities caused by market failures, environmental policies and regulation, basic techniques used in the valuation of non-market goods and amenities, and welfare calculation and cost-benefit analysis