ECON 2400 The Economics of Poverty, Inequality and Discrimination

This course provides students with the economic tools to understand the issues of poverty inequality, and discrimination in the United States. The course will use economic tools, such as opportunity costs and supply and demand to examine the trends, causes, and impacts of inequality and discrimination on gender, race, sexuality, disabilities, religion, and age. In addition, this course will discuss the main fiscal, monetary, trade and labor policies implemented in the United States to reduce poverty, inequality, and discrimination. The focus will be on how supply and demand, profit maximization, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, globalization and trade and labor policies impact different socio-economic groups. It will also examine the role that education, healthcare, and housing policies play in a historical perspective as well as policies that could be implemented to reduce income and wealth inequalities, generating economic opportunities, and promoting social justice. This course will be included as an option for the UCC - Area 4: Diversity and Justice Requirement.

Credits: 3.0