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ECON-416 History of Economic Analysis (Economic and Social Thought through the Ages)

Prerequisite: ECON-312 and ECON-314, or permission of department chair
Curriculum: Fulfills International Business/Economics requirement; fulfills IR core requirement.
Description: An intellectual excursion through time, beginning with Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Adam Smith. Discussion of the nineteenth-century classical economists, with emphasis on Bentham, J.S. Mill and Marx. Study of growth of the Welfare State, protectionism and State intervention by reference to the writings of Keynes, and analysis of the rebirth of individualism in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Current Text: under review

Course ID

Credits

Instructor

Language

Days

Hours

Term

ECON-416-M01

3

Schwartz

Eng

TR

9:30-10:45

Fall