Basic techniques in differential and integral calculus and linear algebra will be applied to a wide range of micro- and macroeconomic issues. Topics include comparative statics, optimization, and linear programming. Mathematics 215 is useful but not required. This seminar familiarizes students with economic analysis applied to the health-care sector of the economy. Topics covered include problems such as escalating medical care costs, health care for the uninsured, Medicare and Medicaid reform, and national health insurance.
Course includes an international comparison of health-care systems.
Not offered, 1999-00. Topics include education, labor market structure, discrimination, labor unions, collective bargaining, income distribution, and unemployment. Not offered, 1999-00. Both theoretical and empirical modes of analysis introduced in the literature covered. Topics chosen from among population growth, agricultural development, industrialization, investment in human capital vs. physical capital, the balanced-unbalanced growth controversy, noneconomic factors in development and underdevelopment.