Description: The course explores concepts of social economic and racial inequality with a focus on the interaction between housing, labor markets, and the ultimate accumulation of wealth. Housing will be examined through a study of the history of affordable housing, an exploration of the transformation of Columbia Point Public Housing Development to Harbor Point, and an applied simulation. Labor markets will be explored at the theoretical level (e.g., labor supply/demand, human capital, discrimination), before diving into data and literature on how changes over the last 40 years have expanded inequality. The course will conclude with how the lack of both affordable housing and quality labor market opportunities can interact to restrict intergenerational wealth accumulation and opportunity. The course will challenge students to explore and test solutions for transforming distressed communities into safe, desirable neighborhoods that produce better outcomes for all residents through field projects, simulations, and a practical final project.
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 W 10:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 107 W 06:00PM-07:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 76 / Total Seats: 76
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 195S TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 76 / Total Seats: 71
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 F 10:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 F 01:00PM-02:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 W 01:00PM-02:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 19
Description: This course develops a theoretical framework with which to analyze consumer and producer behavior. This analysis is then employed to investigate the determination of prices and output in various market situations, the implications for welfare, and the appropriate role for government intervention.
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 203 MW 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 25 / Total Seats: 32
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 MW 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 40 / Total Seats: 40
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Location and Time: Campion Hall 328 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 38 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 209S MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 26 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 304 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 30 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This course is intended to equip the student for the analysis of the determination of employment and national income. Emphasis will be placed on the Keynesian theory of employment, interest, and money and on post-Keynesian macroeconomic models.
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Location and Time: Higgins Hall 225 MW 08:30AM-09:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 125A MW 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 42 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 41 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: Devlin Hall 218 MW 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 35 / Total Seats: 38
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 247 MW 08:30AM-09:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 38
Description: A more intensive analytical treatment of the same material presented in ECON2201. Some mathematical tools will be developed as needed. Open to anyone who has done well in Principles of Economics and highly recommended for students interested in doing graduate work in economics.
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Location and Time: Campion Hall 231 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 29
Description: A more intensive treatment of the same material presented in ECON2202. Open to anyone who has done well in Principles of Economics and highly recommended for students interested in doing graduate work in economics.
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 215 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 9 / Total Seats: 29
Description: The theory and practice of applied time series analysis will be explored. First the different segments (trend, seasonality, cyclical, and irregular) of a time series will be analyzed by examining the Autocorrelation functions (ACF) and Partial Autocorrelation functions (PACF). The specifics model to model the various types of time series include linear regression, panel regression, seasonal decomposition, exponential smoothing, ARIMA modeling as well as combining models. This course is offered as an online hybrid course. In addition to the online lectures presented on the Canvas LMS, there are three required on-campus class meetings on Saturday mornings.Please see the course syllabus for additional details.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 67 / Total Seats: 70
Description: The impact of news on financial markets is examined in this course. More specifically, this course studies how Central Banks and Financial Markets react to economic and financial news. Using tools of economics and finance, the impact of macroeconomic data releases, business and financial news, as well as domestic and global political news on the financial markets will be measured and evaluated in this course. It further examines how the markets, including bonds, equities, commodities and foreign exchange markets, react to the news.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 TuTh 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 26 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This course aims at providing both the theory and empirics of modern economic growth theories. In addition to Classical and Neoclassical economic growth approaches, current views such as endogenous growth theory will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on why some countries lag behind others and ways to solve this problem. The factors that are affecting economic growth such as technology, capital accumulation, change in employment, education, human capital, saving, energy consumption, democracy are studied in detail.The course also addresses the role of financial markets and policy formulation of economic growth.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 WF 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This course provides an introduction to the economics of environmental policy. We begin by examining market failures from externalities and public goods. We then discuss public policy options to correct these failures, and develop tools to assess the costs and benefits of each approach. With this framework in place, the remainder of the course is spent evaluating past efforts to conserve land and improve air and water quality, before concluding with an extensive discussion about global climate change policy.
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 204 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 40 / Total Seats: 39
Description: The student works under the direction of an individual professor.
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Location and Time: BY ARRANGEMENT
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 1 / Total Seats: 10