A study of the evolution and function of cities as well as an analysis of the causes and symptoms of the urban predicament. Discussion of numerous topics concerning metropolitan areas, including economic development strategies, land-use patterns, mass transit, poverty, housing, finance, education, and environmental quality. This course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of American industry, with an emphasis on the monopoly problem. This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of the estimation of economic relationships. Topics include simple and multiple regression, hypothesis testing, multicollinearitv, serial correlation, heteroskedasticity and simultaneous equation models.
Students use computer software statistical packages to analyze data and test hypotheses.
Economic analysis is used to enhance our historical understanding of major issues and episodes in the American past and present. This will allow us to explain the structure and performance of economics through time. It will also allow us to explore the roots of our modern set of problems.