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GPS department

GPPS 421. The Politics of Economic Inequality (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/GPS.html#gpps421

Description

The importance of inequality in income, wealth, and access to resources and opportunities can hardly be overstated. This course has several objectives: (1) to understand the measurement of inequality; (2) to understand the level of inequality in the United States versus other industrialized nations; (3) to see how political scientists and economists understand its causes and effects; (4) to understand why some think inequality is to their advantage; (5) to develop the tools and data for normative evaluations. May not receive credit for GPPS 421 and the IRGN 490 with the same title.

Prerequisite courses

GPPS 421 has no prerequisite courses.

Successor courses

No courses have GPPS 421 as a prerequisite.