ECON 182AU.S. Economic History: From Colonial Times to the Civil War
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of the development of the U.S. economy up to and including the Civil War. Focus on using economic models and numbers to understand what drove the evolution of the economy, why structural changes occurred, and why there was persistence. While the past persists for a long time in the form of people and institutions, there are periods of dramatic change brought on by technological change and by war. Study of the past, with its very different institutions, to inform the present. For example, there was no U.S. currency until the Civil War. Each bank printed its own notes and each state had different banking regulations. Investigation of how the system worked, whether it was effective in allocating capital, and how stability depended on banking regulations.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 11. Enforced corequisite: course 182AL.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataBruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 182A
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 182ALU.S. Economic History: From Colonial Times to the Civil War Laboratory
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 182A
- ECON 182ALU.S. Economic History: From Colonial Times to the Civil War Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.