Ecological Economics

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This course addresses the distribution of wealth and the allocation of resources with a goal of efficiency, acknowledgement and rigorous assessment of the scale issue with a goal of optimality. This is what fundamentally distinguishes ecological economics from conventional or neoclassical economics. This business decision and natural science course gives full treatment to the efficiency standard, externalities, sustainability, socio-eco-economic measurement, food, energy, water, poverty, pollution, depletion, population and migration in our economic world. The course ends with a scientific research project that aims to improve both ecological and financial performance, showing clearly that both can be accomplished concurrent. Prerequisites: (ECON 222, 222, 2200 or 2200 ) and (ECON 231, 231, 2100 or 2100 ).