ECON 2260

This course explores the connection between environmental quality and economic behavior. Discover how environmental economists strive to protect environmental quality more cost-effectively, their significant contributions to design and evaluation of environmental policy, and become familiar with benefit-cost analysis, a valuable tool to make a wide range of policy decisions, including in public health, education, energy, national security, criminal justice, poverty, transportation and more. Note: This course pairs well with ECON 3100 Economics of Sustainability Policy and ECON 3362 Natural Resource Economics.