ECON 182BU.S. Economic History: From the Civil War to World War I
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of the development of the U.S. economy from the Civil War to World War I. 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, the time period from the Civil War to World War I witnessed the rise of large corporations and complaints of monopoly power. There was anti-trust law. Investigation of degree to which collusion and monopoly was a problem, and whether anti-trust law solved the problem or if the regulators were captured. Consideration also that there was no Federal Reserve until December 1914, and examination of the problems created by not having a Federal Reserve.
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
Requisite: course 11. Enforced corequisite: course 182BL.
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 182B
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 182BLU.S. Economic History: From the Civil War to World War I 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 182B
- ECON 182BLU.S. Economic History: From the Civil War to World War I 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.