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Recommended Open Educational Resources for Urban Policy
11.002J / 17.30J Making Public Policy
"Fundamentals of Public Policy is an introductory course that explores policy-making as both a problem-solving process and a political process."
11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy | Urban Studies and Planning
"This course covers topics and questions such as: What is poverty? How is it defined and measured in the United States and other countries? What are the different program designs that countries use to relieve poverty? To answer these questions, the course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice."
14.03 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy (MIT)
"This course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail."
14.20 Industrial Organization and Public Policy | Economics
"This is a course in industrial organization, the study of firms in markets. Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course."
14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy | Economics
"microeconomic theory and empirical analysis. We are especially interested in the link between research and public policy."
Environmental Justice Law and Policy
"This seminar introduces students to basic principles of environmental justice and presents frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens from the perspectives of social science, public policy, and law."
Ethics and Public Policy
"This course will provide the student with an overview of the role that ethical, cultural, religious, and moral principles play in public policy. "