ILRLE 3440 - [Development of Economic Thought and Institutions]

(crosslisted) ECON 3300
(HA-AG, SBA-AG)

Fall or Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

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.