ECON 182CU.S. Economic History: From World War I to 1980s
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of the development of the U.S. economy from the World War I to 1980s. 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, during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, economists looked to the Great Depression, a topic on which then Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke published. Economists also look to the past to understand the role of government deficits in inflation and in economic growth.
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
Requisites: courses 11, 41 (or equivalent). Enforced corequisite: course 182CL.
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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 182C
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 1Principles of Economics
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- ECON 182CLU.S. Economic History: From World War I to 1980s Laboratory
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 13 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 182C
- ECON 182CLU.S. Economic History: From World War I to 1980s 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.