ECO 1202 - An Introduction to the Social Life of the Economy

Credits: 4

Economics, which is the study of how we manage resources to meet our needs and pursue our goals, is entwined with our everyday lives. This class will approach economics primarily through storytelling. (And will not emphasize theories that are expressed in abstract mathematical language.) We will read several works of creative nonfiction that show us how various people in the contemporary U.S. find or don’t find economic opportunities. We will use descriptive statistics to see how the individual people’s stories we read connect to larger patterns of economic experience. Informed by both narrative and numerical evidence, we will consider our collective choices - through business and government policies -about what kind of economy we want to live in.

Fulfills: SOSC in LS Core.