2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

ECO 342 Economic Inequality in the USA

3 hours

Struggles for justice and equality often center around economic issues. These injustices are investigated, debated, and remedies are crafted using economic data and ideologies. This course gives students to opportunity to research inequality and injustice issues by carefully examining past and present movements for equality and justice in the United States. The course introduces students to multiple economic perspectives including neoclassical and heterodox schools of thought.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201 and junior standing or above

Notes

This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Justice Core II (300-level)  area of the Gen Ed Program.