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

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Units: 4

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

Catalog page 236

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 re- wards and the extent to which efficiency is separable from justice. Different notions of how power influences economic outcomes.

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