Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 
    
2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECON 508 - Survey of Economics

Credits: 2
This course is designed to offer non-economics major students a broad understanding of the world around them at both a microeconomic and a macroeconomic level. Firm decision-making tools and consumer choice mechanisms will be studied. More specifically, the role of the market and its structures will be analyzed through the theory of supply and demand, including price and quantity determination, price elasticity, and the role of government in regulating market size and in addressing market failures. Production function, profit maximization conditions, and the basics of firm behavior will help the student to understand some aspects of the firm decision-making process. At a macroeconomic level, several aggregate variables will be studied, including GDP, the consumer price index, the monetary system, and economic policies implementation. A foundation course for the MBA. Grade not included in the MBA GPA calculation.

Grade Mode: Normal (A-F,I,W)
Schedule Type: Lecture, Interactive Online
Term Offering: Fall, Spring
College Code: SBA


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