Overview
Description
This course examines entrepreneurs in the context of the broader economic system including how economic conditions and incentives affect entrepreneurship, and the impact of public policies such as subsidies, taxation and market regulation on entrepreneurship.
Requirements
Prerequisites
ECON 102HON 220
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
ECON 102 or HON 220.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Related Courses
Cross Listed With ENT 473
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- apply economic framework to entrepreneurial decisions using concepts such as profit and utility maximization, constraints, opportunity cost, and risk preferences.
- discuss the traits and roles of entrepreneurs.
- analyze markets for entrepreneurial financing.
- discuss why entrepreneurship is the focus of policy initiatives.
- analyze market failures that affect entrepreneurs and to evaluate the potential for public policy to correct these failures.
- create a presentation of entrepreneurship policy in written and oral form.