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ECON 165History of Capitalism in American Economy

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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How capitalism—what economists call market economy with well-defined and protected civil rights and property rights—has contributed to America’s economic growth. Quantitative course, with analysis of how different features of capitalist economies impact economic growth, investment, consumption, and technical change, using computer simulations based on prominent historical examples.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisite: course 102. Enforced corequisite: course 165L.

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ECON 102

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text
ECON 165L

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ECON 165

  • ECON 102Macroeconomic Theory
    • ECON 2Principles of Economics
      • ECON 1Principles of Economics
    • ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
      • ECON 11Microeconomic Theory2 more beneath
  • ECON 165LHistory of Capitalism in American Economy Laboratory
    • ECON 102Macroeconomic Theoryanother path to it
    • ECON 165History of Capitalism in American Economyanother path to it

2 direct requisites. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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ECON 165

  • ECON 165LHistory of Capitalism in American Economy Laboratory
    • ECON 165History of Capitalism in American Economyanother path to it

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Summer 2026
  • Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.