Course Description
“Individual Choice, Market Forces, and Economic Inequality” is an economics course that examines how individual decision-making and market dynamics jointly shape the distribution of income, wealth, and economic opportunity. The course integrates microeconomic foundations—preferences, incentives, risk, human capital, labor supply, and consumer behavior—with macroeconomic forces such as business cycles, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, and long-run growth, showing how these interact to generate (or mitigate) inequality over time. Using theory, data, and policy debates, the course equips students to analyze inequality drivers—technology, globalization, institutions, market power, and public policy—and to assess real-world interventions with analytical rigor.