Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ECON 4028. ECONOMICS OF NATURAL
RESOURCES. Three credit hours. Three hours of
lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and
ECON 3022.
Economic analysis of natural resources: their
valuation, conservation, and sustainable
development.
ECON 4037. URBAN ECONOMICS. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: ECON 3021.
Urban issues in a microeconomic framework with
emphasis on Puerto Rico. Topics include market
forces and the development of cities, urban landuse
patterns, transportation, and poverty.
ECON 4045. COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC
SYSTEMS. Three credit hours. Three hours of
lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and
ECON 3022.
A comparative study of the different economic
systems such as capitalism, socialism, communism
and fascism. Emphasis is placed on the different
methods used by each system to solve the
fundamental economic problems.
ECON 4046. INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week. Prerequisites: ECON 3021, ECON 3022
and MATE 3000.
Theoretical foundations, methods, techniques, and
applications of economic analysis using the Input-
Output model.
ECON 4055. HISTORY OF ECONOMIC
THOUGHT. Three credit hours. Three hours of
lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and
ECON 3022.
The course studies the beginning and growth of
Economics as a scientific study, and shows
the relationship between economic beliefs,
historical circumstances and the life of the thinker.
The different economic schools of thought, up to
and including the more recent economic ideas are
considered.
ECON 4056. ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week. Prerequisite: ECON 3021.
environmental deterioration; and the international
environmental issues.
ECON 4065. ECONOMICS OF THE PUBLIC
SECTOR AND FISCAL POLICY. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and ECON 3022.
Analysis of government income and expenditures
and the impact of fiscal policy on output,
employment, prices, and other economic variables.
ECON 4085. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week. Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and ECON
3022.
A study of the fundamental aspects of international
economic theory; an examination of the current
international economic framework and tendency
towards economic integration; a brief analysis of
the aspects and problems of the international
monetary system.
ECON 4185. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF
LATIN AMERICA. Three credit hours. Three
hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON
3021 and ECON 3022.
Economic problems of Latin America; critical
evaluation of the institutions and economic factors
that retard or foster their solution; the role of the
State in promoting economic development.
ECON 4196. ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL
ORGANIZATION. Three credit hours. Three
hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON
3021 and ECON 3022.
Conduct, performance and use of price theory in
the determination of industrial structure. Economic
aspects of market structure, mergers and
innovations, models of economic behavior, and the
role of advertising.
ECON 4225. LABOR ECONOMICS. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and ECON 3022.
Theory of labor market behavior and its
applications to public policy. Topics include labor
supply and demand, human capital theory,
migration, unemployment, unions, and
discrimination.
Impact of economic development and population
growth on environmental quality; the economic
analysis of pollution; the role of government in
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