ECON 4600 - Economic Development

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ECON 2105 and ECON 2106.
Description
This course analyzes the issues underlying vast differences in development among the nations of the world. Economic growth, subject to appropriate restraints on environmental degradation, is seen as a major instrument for improving the development of nations and the welfare of their people. The course employs elements of theories of growth, international trade, and finance, industrial organization, money, as well as micro and macroeconomics to analyze causes of and prescribe cures for, underdevelopment. Global Perspectives Course.