This course serves three distinct purposes.
The course is an introduction to economics for non-majors. It is a self-contained and non-technical overview of the intellectual history of political economy.
It introduces the notion of a political economy, emphasizing the moral and ethical problems that markets solve, and fail to solve. It is a bridge to more advanced courses in political philosophy, politics, and economics for the student who wants to sample these disciplines without committing to several semesters of coursework.