David Layton

Professor of Public Policy & Governance

Courses

  • Economic Approaches to Environmental Management

    Examines the economic tools relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Tools are developed in the context of a series of resource problems, with an eye towards building intuition useful for addressing complex policy problems that do not fit neatly into textbook examples.

  • Economics for Policy Analysis and Management I

    Examines the use of microeconomics in policy analysis. Includes a review of supply, demand, and how government actions (e.g., taxes, subsidies) affects economic efficiency in a competitive market. Develops a deeper understanding of consumer choice as a function of preferences and constraints – the building blocks of demand – and examine how changes in constraints […]

  • Economics for Policy Analysis and Management II

    Serves to deepen student understanding of microeconomic theory with a focus on understanding the economic analysis of market failures and on developing policies to address them.