Spring 2008
An Introduction to Economics
Listed in: Economics, as ECON-11
Faculty
Daniel P. Barbezat (Section 01)
Jun Ishii (Section 02)
Steven G. Rivkin (Section 03)
Geoffrey R. Woglom (Section 04)
Description
A study of the central problem of scarcity and of the ways in which the U.S. economic system allocates scarce resources among competing ends and apportions the goods produced among people. Requisite for all other courses in economics. Each section limited to 25 Amherst College students. Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. First semester: Professors Ishii, Rivkin (Course Chair), Woglom, and Yeldan. One lecture and three hours of discussion per week. Second semester: Professors Barbezat (Course Chair), Ishii, Rivkin and Woglom.
