Course Detail
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Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: ECON 4010; or: ECON 2010 and ECON 2020 (or ECON 1010 and consent of instructos), ECON 3250, and College Algebra. Recomended: ECON 3600 or equivalent.
Description
Meets with ECON 5250. Graduate students should register for ECON 6250 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Air, water, and ground pollution; public policies to reduce pollution (including taxes, quotas, and tradable permits); destruction, valuation, and protection of natural environments and the species within them. The United States and other nations are considered. Also exploitation and depletion of nonrenewable energy and mineral resources; equity between different human generations; natural reproduction and human harvesting of fish and trees; extinction of species; entropy, thermodynamics, and the prospects for perpetual economic growth.