An Economic Perspective Summary of Class Societies are made up of individuals.
Social outcomes are the result of individual decisions.
To determine social outcomes therefore, it is important to study how these individual decisions are made. This class will study social science through the prism of individual decision making. The class will take a decidedly neo-classical economics perspective on this. In particular we shall model individuals as making rational decisions given their understanding of the world around them and given the constraints, financial and informational, that they face. Increasingly, this economic perspective is being used in popular discussions on social questions.