ECON 237. Political Economy: Microeconomic Perspectives (4 units)
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Description
Governments serve functions key to economic development, including correcting market failures, raising taxes, delivering services, and protecting property rights. Correspondingly, research in development economics is increasingly focused on how institutions affect development. Generally, the aim of the course is to provide PhD students a complete introduction to the growing literature in this area. Students may not receive credit for ECON 237 and POLI 231E. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Prerequisite courses
ECON 237 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have ECON 237 as a prerequisite.