ECO 256 Contemporary Economic Issues

Topics of discussion in this course include the major features of our economy in their current form. We assess the social cost of unemployment, inflation, farm subsidy, currency and trade wars, deregulation of industry, the minimum-wage laws, among others, and highlight the policy debates in such areas as America’s workers, trade and exchange rate, national health care system as well as other points of current interest within an economics framework. Prerequisites:  ECO 105 and ECO 106 

Credits

4