PUBPOL 5490
Economics of Consumer Protection and the Law
The course will focus on how legal rules and regulations impact consumers in the marketplace. A significant portion of this course will focus on how developments in tort law, contract law, property law, and regulatory law influence social welfare and serve to protect consumers in their interactions with the marketplace. (MPA-DATSCI, MPA-ECONPL, MPA-ENPO, MPA-INTPMN, MPA-ME, MPA-PUBNON, MPA-SCITEC, MPA-SOCPOL, MPA-TPA)
Topics
- Understand and be able to analyze the key roles that lawyers play in society.
- Understand and analyze how the legal and regulatory system influences product safety and consumer outcomes.
- Understand and evaluate the unintended consequences of many of the regulations that exist in our economic system.
- Understand and be able to critically analyze how the FDA and FTC function and evaluate, from an economic perspective, their approach to protecting consumers in the marketplace.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
PUBPOL 2000 or PUBPOL 5210 or ECON 3030.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027