MARKET MANIPULATIONS: CRISES, BUBBLES, ROBBER BARONS AND CORPORATE SAINTS [Archived Catalog]

2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

BUSENV 1706 - MARKET MANIPULATIONS: CRISES, BUBBLES, ROBBER BARONS AND CORPORATE SAINTS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Taking a historical perspective, the course focuses on the major kinds of market manipulations, as well as their impacts. Major topic areas include: the nature of a market and its 'failures,' and how firms as well as governments evolved to compensate for those failures; types of major market calamities, with historical comparisons, examining how they might have been successfully managed; the market manipulators, focusing on the 'robber barons' of the 'gilded age;' and the contexts and consequences of market manipulation, including an overview of factory towns and of worker impacts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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