ILRLE 3440 - Development of Economic Thought and Institutions

(crosslisted)
(also ECON 3440)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: ECON 1110 /ECON 1120 or equivalent.

G. Boyer.

Examines the causes and consequences of sustained economic growth, and the development of economics as a discipline, from pre-industrial mercantilist thought through the economics of John Maynard Keynes. Stresses the relationship between the consequences of 19th-century economic growth and the evolution of economic thought.