The course is offered each term. An introduction to the logic and methods of statistical inference with special reference to economic data. Topics include estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and time series analysis. The course is offered each term. 310 Economics of Agriculture and World Food Supply K. Rask Discussion of the agricultural and hunger-related problems of developed and developing economies.
Attention is given to microeconomic, macroeconomic, and global components of food policy analysis.
This course reviews the African American economic experience in the United States since the Civil War. Its emphasis is on the transition by African Americans from a Southern agricultural labor force to one which is predominantly urban. The course investigates the extent to which African Americans have been fully integrated into the American economy and studies the reasons that this process has been incomplete. An introduction to the study of environmental problems with the perspective and analytical tools of economics. Sources of market failures with respect to environmental issues are discussed, and methods for analyzing environmental policies are developed.