Course Descriptions: Economics
Ringing the Closing Bell of the NYSE
Dr. Jerry Fox
Dr. Jerry Fox is Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics. He has many years of academic experience in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His academic fields include political macro-economy international economics, and quantitative methods. He has published
articles in the Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of conflict Resolution, and Applied Research in Economic Development. He has published two academic books on globalism and the political macro-economy. Dr. Fox has also presented research papers at numerous economic conferences. Dr. Fox has done consulting work on economic impact analysis, including a major study on the economic impact of the furniture industry in North Carolina. He has international experience in teaching and living in England, France, Poland, Japan, and the Philippines. ECO 2030. Principles of Macroeconomics. Demand and supply, free enterprise and capitalism, GDP and the business cycle, unemployment, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, banking, international trade, and finance, and other related topics. The course helps students
understand current economic problems and policy debates. Four credits. [SOSCI] ECO 2050. Principles of Microeconomics. Theories of consumer and producer behavior, including demand and supply, elasticity, and consumer utility theory. Introduction to pure competition, monopoly, and other market structures in which businesses operate. Discussion of issues such as mergers and antitrust policy, regulation, cost-benefit theory, externalities and public goods, resource markets, poverty and income inequality, and other applied microeconomic issues. Four credits. [SOSCI] ECO 2881, 3881, 4881. Special Topics. Variable credit. May be repeated. ECO 3030. Intermediate Microeconomics. A more indepth study of economic growth and the business cycle. Analyzes competing macroeconomic theories. Explores monetary and fiscal policies, and their effectiveness in targeting unemployment and inflation, in closed and open economics. Extensive use of mathematics and graph modeling. Prerequisites: ECO 2030 and ECO 2050. Four credits. ECO 3035. Economic Growth. A study of standards of living and rates of economic growth in the long run