Economics Courses for University Degree and Transfer Programs
ECON 106 Principles of Economics
Topics covered include: national income accounts, national income determination model, monetary system, monetary and fiscal policy, problems with the Macro System, inflation, unemployment, etc.; international trade - balance of payments, exchange rates, capital flows.
ECON 107 Principles of Economics
Usually taken following Economics 106. Topics covered include: supply and demand - price supports, the agricultural problem, value theory, theory of the firm - competition, pollution, industrial organization - monopoly, public utilities, advertising, income distribution B labour unions, productivity.
ECON 210 Money and Banking
Banking theory and practice in a Canadian context; the supply of money; the demand for money; the conduct of monetary policy by the Bank of Canada; financial markets and the cost and allocation of credit.
ECON 216 Environmental Economics
Economic analysis of environmental problems (water and air pollution, etc.). Tools developed in Economic Principles will be applied to pollution control issues. Market and non-market regulation of environmental problems will be explored.
