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ECON 170Industrial Organization: Theory and Tactics

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

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Not open for credit to students with credit for former course 170 or 171. Monopoly, collusion and competition, strategic firm behavior, nonprice competition with and without entry, pricing practices, antitrust. Comparison of economic and legal treatments of competitive process. Monopoly competition, and collusion as economic theory, as antitrust doctrine, and as fact. Source of monopoly. Predatory behavior. Misleading practices in theory and policy. General problem of relationship between private rights of action and competitive entry.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 101. Enforced corequisite: course 170L.

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ECON 101

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text
ECON 170L

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ECON 170

  • ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
    • ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
      • ECON 1Principles of Economics
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  • ECON 170LIndustrial Organization: Theory and Tactics Laboratory
    • ECON 101Microeconomic Theoryanother path to it
    • ECON 170Industrial Organization: Theory and Tacticsanother 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 170

  • ECON 170LIndustrial Organization: Theory and Tactics Laboratory
    • ECON 170Industrial Organization: Theory and Tacticsanother 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.

  • Winter 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027

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