ECON 443 - Issues in Microeconomic Policy

Calendar Description
Selected topics in microeconomic policy. Topics may include: climate change, health economics, national security (defense economics), globalization and/or regional development, and demographic change.

Fall 2011
An advanced discussion of selected topics in the economics of climate change. Topics to be discussed may include: the science of climate change; the economic approach to measuring and aggregating climate change damages across space, time, and risk; climate change mitigation strategies and costs; the economics of stock pollution control; policy responses for mitigation and adaptation; international collective action.