ECON 272B: Political Economy: Efficiency, Justice, and Power

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Units: 4

Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours

Catalog page 234

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Covers the various notions of efficiency used in political economic analysis, as well as their application in historical and comparative institutional contexts. Theories of justice in the distribution of rewards and the extent to which efficiency is separa- ble from justice. Different notions of how power influ- ences economic outcomes.

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