11.202
Planning Economics
Students use economic theory tools acquired in 11.203 to understand the mutual processes of individual action and structural constraint and investigate crises in search of opportunities for mitigation and reparation. Investigates a variety of structural crises from throughout the realms of planning, such as: capitalism, climate change, and (in)action; white supremacy, segregation, and gentrification; colonialism, informality, and infrastructure; autocentricity and other legacies of the built environment.
Fall 2010
Topics
- Public goods and externalities I: A local perspective
- Public goods and externalities, cont.
- Basic investment theory
- Location, economic development, and the canonical urban problem
- Location, economic development, and the canonical urban problem, cont.
Readings
- [NS] = Nicholson, Walter, and Christopher Snyder. Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application . 11th ed. South-Western College Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 9780324599107.
- [NS] Chapter 16.
- SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Public goods and externalities, cont. · READINGS: No readings
- [NS] Chapter 14 including appendix
- Nicholson, Walter, and Christopher Snyder. Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application . 11th or 10th ed. South-Western College Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 9780324599107.
- Nicholson, Walter, Christopher Snyder, Peter Luke, and Michael Wood. Intermediate Microeconomics . Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN: 9781844806294.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 11.203 G (Spring; second half of term) 3-0-3 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2010
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.