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2015-2016 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECO 231 - Principles Microeconomics

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Human Questions & Contexts, Nature of US Society
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Survey of the American economy focusing on markets, the price system, and resource allocation. Price determination in competitive and imperfectly-competitive markets. Applications in agricultural economics, legal prices, excise taxes, labor market issues, advertising, technological change, pollution and the environment, public goods, antitrust policy, international trade, and alternative economic systems. Cross-listed with POL 240, POL 240
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