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The course is designed as a general education 3 Credits course in basic economics for non-majors. An important goal of this ECON 102H Introductory Microeconomic Analysis and Policy, Honors (3) course is to take each student as far down the road of "thinking like an (GS)(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements. economist" as possible. The course begins by studying microeconomic Economics is the study of how people satisfy their wants in the face topics, including supply and demand, elasticity, and market efficiency. of limited resources. One way to think about economics is that it is a The course then switches course to macroeconomics topics, including consistent set of methods and tools that is valuable in analyzing certain GDP, income, growth, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, and monetary types of problems related to decision--making, resource allocation, and policy. 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