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POLECON 230 Strategy
in the Business Environment
This course addresses managerial issues in the social, political, legal, and
ethical. environment of business. Cases and readings emphasize strategies to
improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies.
Cases are set in both the U.S. and non-U.S. environments and illustrate how
managers are called upon to interact with the public and governments in local,
national, and international settings. Topics include integrated strategy,
activists and the media, legislation affecting business, regulation and
antitrust, intellectual property, Internet privacy, International trade policy,
and ethics.
POLECON 235 Ethics
An important component of responsible management is how a company's managers
deal with ethical issues. The three principal objectives of this course are to
consider an important set of ethics systems, increase the precision with which
students think about, discuss, and practice ethics, and provide opportunities to
apply ethics systems to business problems. The approach taken to ethics is based
on moral principles, and the focus is on systems that provide foundations for
ethical intuitions pertaining to well-being, rights, and justice.
POLECON 680 Foundations
of Political Economy
This course provides an introduction to political economy with an emphasis on
formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political
competition. Topics considered include voting theory, social choice,
institutional equilibria, agenda setting, interest group politics, bureaucratic
behavior, and electoral competition. Also listed as Political Science 351A.
