Global Economic Challenges (ECON440)
This course provides in-depth analyses of major economic challenges facing the world. The course offers an overview of aspects of global economy within the field of economic geography and its linkages to related issues of resources, development, international business and trade. The course investigates the phenomenon of globalization and seeks to provide understanding of today’s increasingly interdependent world. The goal of the course is to not only discuss the major global economic risks and opportunities, but also for students to develop the tools to understand and interpret events so that they can adapt to the economic surprises that will inevitably arise in the future.