THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MONEY, DEBT, AND TAXES (EC3025)

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What is money? Is money related to taxes? What is the role of public debt? Do money, debt, and taxes affect the economy? In this class we will learn how economists answer those questions. We will relate those answers to current and past historical events, as well as analyze how those topics affect global economic governance.

Code: 
EC3025
Name: 
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MONEY, DEBT, AND TAXES
Discipline: 
EC (Economics)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
(EC2020 OR EC2020GE110) OR (EC2010GE110 OR EC2010)
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Be able to identify and critically evaluate economic discourse concerning money, taxation, and public debt. 
  2. Be able to draw the connections on discourses between money, debt, and taxes. 
  3. Be able to define and describe the main monetary and banking institutional arrangement and conventions. 

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2024 EC3025 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MONEY, DEBT, AND TAXES

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