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ECON 2510: Economic Development I (Graduate)
This course covers issues related to labor, land, and natural resource markets in developing countries, in partial and general equilibrium settings. Topics covered include: The standard household model, under complete and incomplete market assumptions; household and individual labor supply, income maintenance programs, migration, self-employment, and the informal sector; land markets and land distribution issues, including sharecropping models; and environmental issues, with special attention to land use, air pollution, water usage, and potential consequences of climate change. |
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ENVS 1350: Environmental Economics and Policy (Undergraduate)
This course covers the economic analysis of environmental issues, with an emphasis on the implications for designing appropriate policy measures. Specifically, we will cover the valuation of and demand for environmental goods; the basic theory of economic markets and market failure in the presence of externalities; private and government solutions to market failure; the role of uncertainty in policy-making; and the special concerns involving open trade environments and trans-boundary pollution, on a national and global scale. We will study the applications of these concepts to issues such as climate change, land use, air and water pollution, and energy. |