ECO 213 - Economics and Race in the US

Course Units: 1.0

(TBD: Staff) This course considers the way that race affects economic outcomes in the United States. A person’s race has a great deal of influence on that person’s economics status, including his or her education, employment, housing, health care, standard of living, and general prospects for life. In this course we’ll see how economic forces, social and political forces, and history combine to generate the distribution of goods, services, wealth, and opportunity that we see in the United States. We’ll also ask how economic policy could be used to influence these distributions and make them fairer and more just. Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 CC: LCC, JCHF, JSPE ISP: AFR, AMS