ECONOMICS 1000
Global Economic Issues
M-W-F   2:10-3:00

History Room 57
Fall 2008

Instructor: J Shogren
Office: 121 Ross Hall
Telephone: 766.5430 or 766.2571
Office Hours: MWF 3-4 and by appointment
E-Mail: jramses]at[uwyo.edu  

Assistant: rlatimer]at[uwyo.edu

URL for Econ 1000: http://www.uwyo.edu/Shogren

Teaching Assistant

        JARED GRANT

        OFFICE HOURS: 1-2 MWF

        OFFICE: ROSS HALL 9

        jmgrant@uwyo.edu

 

Course Introduction

The importance of how we choose to organize our society cannot be overstated.  We can choose to promote unabashed political and economic freedom, or we can choose to control the economy to protect ourselves from ourselves.  This course will introduce you to the key economics ideas that create social order and well-being. Economics is not about Wall Street; economics is the study of how we choose to allocate our scarce resources given our unlimited wants and needs. Economics attempts to understand how the choices we make today affect the costs and benefits of all citizens today and into the future.   The way to do this is to come to class, read the material, discuss your opinions in class, and study for the quizzes and final.