Microeconomics is the study and evaluation of how individuals, firms, and governments make decisions in markets. This course builds a basic framework of how prices convey information in markets, and how governments and policy can shift market behavior, correct market failures, and potentially bring about more socially desirable outcomes.

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Analysis of aggregate economic activity in relation to the level, stability, and growth of national income. Topics may include the determination and effects of unemployment, inflation, balance of payments, deficits, and economic development, and how these may be influenced by monetary, fiscal, and other policies.

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This interdisciplinary course examines network structures and how they matter in everyday life. The course examines how each of the computing, economic, sociological and natural worlds are connected and how the structure of these connections affects each of these worlds. Tools of graph theory and game theory are taught and then used to analyze networks. Topics covered include the web, the small world phenomenon, markets, neural networks, contagion, search and the evolution of networks.

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