Environmental Ethics with Mark Esposito
Understand the importance of impact on the environment to future value, analyze the
characteristics and cases of various social enterprises based on corporate responsibility for
the environment, and understand the basic Technology related to the environment. This
upper-level course examines environmental issues in developing countries, such as air
pollution, management of the commons, climate change, energy use, and public health. This
course connects the foundation of microeconomics with real-life household and firms’
decision-making on environmental issues. Students will be exposed to basic empirical
techniques and the latest examples that identify and/or evaluate key environmental problems
in development. The main goals of this course are to discuss the possible economic causes
and consequences of environmental issues and to be cognizant of the various government
and market-based solutions to environmental issues in development.