Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE AMERICAS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines public policy issues that confronted 19th-century policy makers in the Americas. These include emergence of banking, railroad subsidization, regulation of industries, invention, labor and land tenure. Case studies are drawn from the United States, Brazil and Mexico. Suitable for economic majors and students with economics and/or statistics background.