Covers international trade and financial markets. Taught in a mixture of lectures and sections. No calculus is used, and there is no mathematics background requirement. Designed for both potential economics concentrators and those who plan no further work in the field. The Department of Economics strongly encourages students considering concentration to take this course in their freshman year.
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The underlying theme is that politics may be described and understood in terms of rational, goal-seeking behavior by citizens, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups in various institutional settings. M., W., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged. Looking over modern U.S. history, this course combines demographic data on societal trends, ethnographic data on people's everyday lives and outlooks, and evidence about changing institutional structures. This combination of approaches often pursued separately in the social sciences is used to explore recurrent yet shifting controversies about the well-being of families and children, about immigration and citizenship, and about access to health care in the United States. 3 Democracy is a system of rule in which the citizenry is the ultimate sovereign.