Sophomore Economics Tutorial: Markets, Welfare & the State
CSS 220
Fall 2025
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01
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This tutorial takes a topical approach to studying economic ideas and policy. We start with writers who drew either the admiration or ire of Adam Smith. These include the scholastics, mercantilists, and physiocrats. Next, we compare the classical school with competing schools of economic thought from Marxian, utilitarian, and Austrian to neoclassical and Keynesian. Throughout the course, we read radical critiques from the political right and left, touching upon monetarist theory, supply-side economics, institutional, behavioral and evolutionist schools. We see how the policy and economic debates reflect the socio-economic struggles of their time and shed light on the controversies of our own. |
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| Credit: 1.5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ECON |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (College of Social Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - 1st Trimester |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
: TBD
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Examinations and Assignments:
: Weekly papers at the beginning of each class meeting |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Additional Requirements and/or comments: Course open to CSS Sophomores only |
| Instructor(s): Castillo-García,César Jeanpierre Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: TBA |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 11 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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