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  • ECON 256: Bus & Econ Stat I

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Studies statistical applications used in Business and Economic studies. Topics include the organization and presentation of Business and Economic data and application of commonly used descriptive, correlation and inferential statistical procedures related to Business and Economic research. The course introduces students to database management software, and use the software to retrieve Business and Economics data from various sources, tabulate or graphically present data, and conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.
    ShareECON 256 - Bus & Econ Stat I

  • ECON 313: Labor Econ

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Presents the economics of labor market, including labor supply and demand; determinants of wages, productivity; labor movements, unionism, collective bargaining and public policy. The goal of the course is to introduce students to economic analysis and empirical data to recognize historical and cultural roots of inequality by ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ability, and reflecting on those findings to gain awareness of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ability as determinants of labor market outcomes.
    ShareECON 313 - Labor Econ

  • ECON 315: Business & Gov

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides an overview of business, government and society interactions in tandem with various government policies considering economic theory and historical experience. Topics include corporate social responsibility and ethics, entrepreneurship, business and political influence, government regulation, and surveys of government policies for maintaining competition, substituting public for private enterprise, and regulation as a substitute for competition.
    ShareECON 315 - Business & Gov

  • ECON 316: Urban Econ

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Applies economics theory and recent empirical findings to urban resource use. Topics include why cities exist and what causes them to grow or shrink; the market forces that shape cities; housing market; urban transportation systems, education, crime, and pollution; the role of government in determining land use patterns; the effects of government housing policies; and equal opportunity in cities.
    ShareECON 316 - Urban Econ

  • ECON 320: Cost-Benefit

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Introduce the basic principles of cost-benefit analysis. Topics include Welfare Economics, the theoretical valuation of costs and benefits, the role of discounting, various means for ranking projects and the practical tools for obtaining cost and benefit valuation estimates necessary to conduct the economic analysis of public sector actions.
    ShareECON 320 - Cost-Benefit

  • ECON 322: Contrasting Eco

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces contemporary economic systems; outlines theories of capitalism, socialism and communism; and compares their actual performances. In addition, the course presents perspectives on the issues of transition in market economies, centrally planned economies and mixed economies.
    ShareECON 322 - Contrasting Eco

  • ECON 323: Hist of Econ Thought

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Surveys economic theories propounded in the past and their effect on present-day economic thinking, business and political systems. Topics include the Classical school - Adam Smith, Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Malthus, among others; the challenges to the Classical School - Marx, Marginalists, and key figures in the Neoclassical school - Marshall and Walras; the early 20-th century Keynesian economics and the Monetarist model of Milton Friedman, and the 1970's models by Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent.
    ShareECON 323 - Hist of Econ Thought

  • ECON 326: Public Finance

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Applies economic theory and recent empirical findings to analysis of public policy. Topics include efficiency, externalities, public goods, the principles of taxation and applications, public borrowing and public debt management, revenues and expenditures of local, state, and federal government, and the impact of fiscal and budgetary policy on resources and income allocation.
    ShareECON 326 - Public Finance

  • ECON 327: Money and Banking

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Reviews the historical background and the development of monetary practices and principles of banking; special attention given to commercial banking and credit regulations and current monetary and banking development. Topics include financial systems, interest rate determination, structure and regulation of banking industry, central banks, money supply, monetary policy, and the effect of money on output, employment, and inflation.
    ShareECON 327 - Money and Banking

  • ECON 329: Env & Res Econ

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Examines environmental facts and social circumstances with particular emphasis on market and non-market solutions to environmental problems. Topics include the private market and its efficiency, externalities, environmental quality as a public good, water resources and water quality, problem of air quality, supply, consumption and pricing of natural resources, the role that exhaustible natural resources have in economic development and other environmental problems.
    ShareECON 329 - Env & Res Econ
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