90-743, Urban And Regional Economic Development

12 units

Prerequisites: None

Delivery Format: On-Campus

Information:

Capstone Course – Prerequisites: 90-710 Applied Economic Analysis, 90-711 Empirical Methods for Public Policy and Management, and 90-714 Policy and Politics in American Institutions or 90-713 Policy and Politics an International Perspective

Description:

The main objective of this course is to provide students with a survey of literature and the practice of economic development. In this course we will study the organization and evolution of urban and regional economies. The material covered includes a wide range of issues from a variety of perspectives: broad historical analyses of social and industrial development; the economics of technological change; the nature and function of urban and regional systems and networks; and analysis of related policy questions from both a domestic and international perspective.

The course will be taught as a seminar. Students will be expected to make presentations of assigned topics and to participate in class discussions. Students will be required to write six short papers based on the assigned readings. Each paper should be 5 pages in length. In addition, students will be required to write a longer twenty page paper evaluating a work which is considered a "classic" in the field. Students will be expected to assess the contribution of the work to the discipline of economic development and to examine how the work influenced economic development policy.

Last modified on August 28, 2007