This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

This is a professional skills workshop that is required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master’s students. The workshop will be offered each semester, concurrent with the...

In the past 50 years, states have signed hundreds of international environmental...

When Michigan voters go to the polls on November 2 to elect a new governor and a new legislature, there is near unanimity that jobs and the economy will be the paramount...

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

The aim of this lecture course is to introduce students to the manner in which science and technology issues both shape and are shaped by public...

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...