Restricted to students in the School of Continuing & Professional Studies.
Introduces economic analysis that studies system wide phenomena including inflation, economic growth and development and unemployment. Includes a focus on behavioral economics, and provides students with an opportunity to analyze real world economic and public policy decisions that have been influenced by non-economic factors included within its field.
Outcomes: 1) Explain the law of supply and demand; 2) Describe the nature of macroeconomic issues and problems; 3) Articulate the objectives of monetary and fiscal policies and the function of the two principal policy makers; 4) Analyze historical macroeconomic crises; 5) Discuss basic macroeconomic goals such as GDP, CPI and unemployment; 6) Assess public policy decisions from a behavioral economic perspective.
Introduces economic analysis that studies system wide phenomena including inflation, economic growth and development and unemployment. Includes a focus on behavioral economics, and provides students with an opportunity to analyze real world economic and public policy decisions that have been influenced by non-economic factors included within its field.
Outcomes: 1) Explain the law of supply and demand; 2) Describe the nature of macroeconomic issues and problems; 3) Articulate the objectives of monetary and fiscal policies and the function of the two principal policy makers; 4) Analyze historical macroeconomic crises; 5) Discuss basic macroeconomic goals such as GDP, CPI and unemployment; 6) Assess public policy decisions from a behavioral economic perspective.