A study of personal and public expenditures on health care, the markets for medical personnel, the medical industry, the health insurance market, and present and proposed health-care policies. Deals with the economic and spatial processes underlying urban growth and regional development, and with the structural and demographic characteristics of urban areas as well as the social and psychological dynamics of urban life. This course is also recommended for students who are not Economics majors. Economic, legal and institutional factors involved in real estate markets. Environmental and economic trade-offs necessary for effective management are considered in the context of selected models of land use.
Special attention is given to issues of urban development.
This course is also recommended for students who are not economics majors. Considers the changing relationships of population, resources, and the economy, the transformation of classical spatial economies, and the processes producing increasing globalization. Particular attention is paid to technological change and to the dynamics of world trade and investment. This course is also recommended for students who are not economics majors. An introductory survey of development and economic growth in less developed countries.