Topics include the European community's common agricultural policy with variable levies, Japan's rice self-sufficiency policy, U.S. commodity programs such as the tobacco, dairy and grain programs, and the exchange rate and agricultural pricing policiesin many developing countries in Latin America and Africa. 482 Seminar in Labor Economics T. Kato This advanced study of selected issues in labor economics emphasizes international and comparative pespectives. Topics may include specific human capital and internal labor markets, unemployment and a stock-flow model, collective bargaining, human resource management practices, managerial labor markets, and executive compensation, and labor market transitions in Eastern Europe. This course is an advanced study of selected international economic problems with special reference to the role of theories in the understanding and solution of such problems. 485 Seminar in American Economic History M. Haines Advanced study of selected isssues in American economic history, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Topics change from year to year.
Topics covered include the economics of the ante-bellum south and the Civil War, the Great Depression, the development of labor markets, the demographic evolution of the United States, and local New York social and economic history. Advanced study covering methodological problems and alternative schemes of economic development. The course focuses on the central problems of a particular underdeveloped region and on strategies for providing a solution. 488 Seminar in Government Control D. Waldman Contemporary issues involving government policy and the private sector. Major topics include anti-trust policy, public utility regulation, the regulation of transportation and communications, and deregulation.