ECON 409

Undergraduate Seminar in Political Economy

SScW

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Description

Seminar in political economy with focus on Marxian and public choice approaches to political economy. Explores the questions raised by each approach, the assumption(s) and testability of hypotheses, and applies these approaches to a number of problems in political economy.

CEC Data

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