ECO 6143 Economics of Natural Resources

3 units
Economics
Faculty of Social Sciences
The concept of scarcity rents in static and dynamic settings. Basic property regimes: open access, exclusive access and common property. Policy instruments. The importance of transaction costs. General-equilibrium and political-economic aspects of property regimes. Conflict. Elements of dynamic optimization. Renewable and non-renewable resources. This course is equivalent to ECON 5803 at Carleton University.

Components:

Lecture

Previously Offered Terms:

Fall
Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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3.71

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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2.38

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Fair Assessments

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