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Academic Year 2002/2003

Institutions and Economic Development
ECON 375 SP

This one-semester course will cover a mix of the standard topics covered in a one-semester development economics course and additional topics relating to the role of institutions (humanly designed formal and informal rules) in the process of economic growth and development. The course will draw substantially on the recent research in new institutional economics. The focus will be on how human societies have developed informal and formal rules and how they have improved them. On this basis, the course will explore how developing countries might improve their institutions both to expand their economic and political transactions and to promote human and physical capital accumulation and technological innovation.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ECON    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: (ECON300 AND ECON301) OR (ECON270 AND ECON301) OR (ECON270 AND ECON271) OR (ECON300 AND ECON271)

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Chu,Ke-young    

Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM;     Location: PAC107

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 25)

SR. major: 10   Jr. major: 15

SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major:    SO:    FR:

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Quantitative Reasoning, Writing

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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