ECON 130Public Economics
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Role of government in market economy. Alternative justifications for government intervention. Principles and effects of spending programs (especially social insurance and health), taxation, deficit financing, and federal credit programs. Taxation in open economy. Properties of public choice mechanisms.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 130L.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 130
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 103Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- ECON 103LEconometrics Laboratory
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
- ECON 130LPublic Economics Laboratory
4 direct requisites. Showing 34 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.