Resources, Incentives, and Choices II: Analysis of Public Policy
API 102 B
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Course Information
Description
This course builds on API-101 to develop microeconomic and macroeconomic tools of analysis for policy problems through various policy applications. The course is broadly focused on evaluating the rationale for government intervention in the economy and evaluating the efficiency, incentive, and distributional effects of government policies through US and international applications.
Course Notes
Prerequisites: API-101 or equivalent. Students may receive credit for both API-102 and API-110 or API-112 only if API-102 is taken first.
Class Notes
The B section focuses on applications at the nexus of business and government, including environmental policy, energy policy, agricultural policy, health policy, and tax policy, and their implications for financial, labor, and insurance markets.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
