printer friendly pageEASTASN 217: Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (EASTASN 117)
China, Japan, and both Koreas. Healthcare economics as applied to East Asian health policy, including economic development, population aging, infectious disease outbreaks (SARS, avian flu), social health insurance, health service delivery, payment incentives, competition, workforce policy, pharmaceutical industry, and regulation. No prior knowledge of economics or healthcare required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eggleston, K. (PI)
EASTASN 262: Seminar on the Evolution of the Modern Chinese State, 1550-Present (EASTASN 162)
This seminar will assess the evolving response of the late imperial, early Republican, Nanjing Republic, and the PRC regimes in response to China's changing international setting, to successive revolutions in warfare, and to fundamental economic, social and demographic trends domestically from the 16th century to present. It will assess the capacities of each successive Chinese state to extract resources from society and economy and to mobilize people behind national purposes, to elaborate centralized institutions to pursue national priorities, to marshal military forces for national defense and police forces to sustain domestic order, and to generate popular identities loyal to national authority.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Miller, A. (PI)
EASTASN 285: American and Chinese Approaches to Managing Global Challenges (INTLPOL 285)
Like other nations, China and the United States must address a number of complex and consequential transnational challenges including climate change related threats to food and water security, nuclear proliferation, and the absence of institutions to manage cyberspace. None of these challenges can be managed by China or the United States alone and none can be managed successfully with at least some level of US-China cooperation. This unique course will be taught jointly by faculty from Stanford and Peking University and is open to students from both schools. The course will examine American and Chinese perceptions of and approaches to managing a number of different transnational challenges with the goal of identifying obstacles to and opportunities for cooperation. The lead instructors are Thomas Fingar (Stanford) and Wang Yong (Peking University).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Fingar, T. (PI)
ECON 118: Development Economics
The microeconomic problems and policy concerns of less developed countries. Topics include: health and education; risk and insurance; microfinance; agriculture; technology; governance. Emphasis is on economic models and empirical evidence. Prerequisites:
ECON 50,
ECON 102B.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Morten, M. (PI)
;
Zhang, S. (TA)
ECON 125: Economic Development, Microfinance, and Social Networks
An introduction to the study of the financial lives of households in less developed countries, focusing on savings, credit, informal insurance, the expansion of microfinance, social learning, public finance/redistribution, and social networks. Prerequisites-
Econ 51 or
Publpol 51 and
Econ 102B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-AQR, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Chandrasekhar, A. (PI)
;
Lenk, A. (TA)
ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (MED 262)
Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in developing countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epidemiology; analytic paradigms for health and population change; the demand for health; the role of health in international development. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
ECON 102B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Miller, G. (PI)
;
Pousada, B. (TA)
ECON 155: Environmental Economics and Policy
Economic sources of environmental problems and alternative policies for dealing with them (technology standards, emissions taxes, and marketable pollution permits). Evaluation of policies addressing local air pollution, global climate change, and the use of renewable resources. Connections between population growth, economic output, environmental quality, sustainable development, and human welfare. Prerequisite:
ECON 50. May be taken concurrently with consent of the instructor.
Terms: Win, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Goulder, L. (PI)
ECON 162: Games Developing Nations Play (POLISCI 247A, POLISCI 347A)
If, as economists argue, development can make everyone in a society better off, why do leaders fail to pursue policies that promote development? The course uses game theoretic approaches from both economics and political science to address this question. Incentive problems are at the heart of explanations for development failure. Specifically, the course focuses on a series of questions central to the development problem: Why do developing countries have weak and often counterproductive political institutions? Why is violence (civil wars, ethnic conflict, military coups) so prevalent in the developing world, and how does it interact with development? Why do developing economies fail to generate high levels of income and wealth? We study how various kinds of development traps arise, preventing development for most countries. We also explain how some countries have overcome such traps. This approach emphasizes the importance of simultaneous economic and political development as two different facets of the same developmental process. No background in game theory is required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Weingast, B. (PI)
;
Jimenez, M. (TA)
ECON 165: International Finance
This is a first course in open economy macroeconomics. The course's objective is to build the analytical foundation for understanding key macro issues in the world economy such as global capital flows, the behavior of exchange rates, currency and sovereign debt crises. While a significant portion of the course will be theoretical, there will be several occasions for linking the theory to real-world events. Prerequisite:
ECON 52.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Bocola, L. (PI)
;
Caratelli, D. (TA)
ECON 214: Development Economics I
This course uses microeconomic theory and empirical analyses to understand barriers to human and economic development in lower income countries, as well as how public policies are formulated and their effectiveness at alleviating poverty. Topics include institutions and governance; human capital accumulation; productivity; inequality; poverty traps. Prerequisites: 202 or 202N, 270.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Dupas, P. (PI)
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