ECON 103Introduction to Economic Concepts and Current Problems
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Fall, Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1983–84
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1979–80 to 1983–84; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The focus of the course is on the use of economic theory for understanding the behaviour of consumers and of large corporations in the modern industrial world, and on the discussion of such urgent current problems as the energy Crisis, population explosion, income inequality, economic policies of large conglomerate business, the arms race, urban congestion, environmental pollution and resource uses. Only one of ECON 101 and 103 may be taken.
As printed in the 1982–83 to 1983–84 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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Spring 2016
Econ as "depth" for CS 2 points, 14 comments
u/DramatistWaterloo: “I need to get 1.5 credits of something and at least one third year level. I was wondering, what stream of ECON BIRD COURSES is this? I heard ECON 101, 102 are bird, but what follows? I mean, is ECON 101, 102, 103 counted for the third year level depth?”
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1979–80 to 1983–84, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1982–83 to 1983–84 2 calendars
The focus of the course is on the use of economic theory for understanding the behaviour of consumers and of large corporations in the modern industrial world, and on the discussion of such urgent current problems as the energy Crisis, population explosion, income inequality, economic policies of large conglomerate business, the arms race, urban congestion, environmental pollution and resource uses.
Only one of ECON 101 and 103 may be
taken.
Offered Fall, Winter · 0.5 credit
1979–80 to 1981–82 3 calendars
Titled Introduction to Economic Concepts and Current.
Problems .
The course presents the ideas of the great economists from Adam Smith to J.M. Keynes. The focus of the course is on the use of economic theory to understand the behaviour of consumers and of large corporations in the modern industrial worid, and on the solution of such urgent current problems as stagglation, population, the economic policies of large conglomerate business, the arms race, urban congestion, and resource uses. The course has a structure which is based on J.K. Galbraith's televised series, ‘‘The Age of Uncertainty.”
Only one of Econ 101 and 103 may be taken. Offered by correspondence only.
Offered Fall, Winter · 0.5 credit
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.