ECO 241(3-0-3)
Modern Economic Issues
This course explores the applicability of the core concepts of economics to the analysis of a set of representative and major contemporary economic problems. After a first exposition of key economic ideas, six major issues are presented; concepts pertinent to each are developed and implemented to illustrate alternative solutions; the range of policy options is identified and examined in detail for each of the issue-areas. A typical set of issues would include: health care policy; income inequality and redistribution; federal budget and fiscal policy; money, banking and monetary policy; labor organization; domestic and international competitiveness.