Description
Aims: This module will bring students to the frontier of economic research on social inequalities, equipping them with the analytical tools to measure, assess, and address inequality from multiple perspectives. Additionally, students will develop valuable research skills by producing and presenting an original piece of empirical research.
Suitable for: Final year Economics (L100 / L101 / L102), Econ/Geog (LL17), Econ/Stats (LG13), Phil/Econ (VL91), PPE (4V86) and BASc students, subject to satisfying the pre-requisites.
Prerequisites: the main prerequisite is ECON0013: Microeconomics or equivalent.
Assumed knowledge: Basic laws of supply and demand, and the way they enter into the price mechanism, as well as elementary macro-economics. familiarity with the concepts of economic equality and the criteria for the efficient allocation of resources in the economy would also be useful.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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