ECON 165

History 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.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Summer 2026

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

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 102. Enforced corequisite: course 165L.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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ECON 102

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text

ECON 165L

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 165

ECON 102Macroeconomic Theory
- ECON 2Principles of Economics
  - ECON 1Principles of Economics
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
  - ECON 11Microeconomic Theory2 more beneath

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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.