Modul 32921

Social sustainability is one of the central policy challenges of modern societies. Questions of inequality, education, health, demographic change, care, social insurance, and technological change all involve difficult trade-offs between efficiency, fairness, resilience, and fiscal sustainability. This course provides students with the economic tools to analyze these trade-offs systematically.

Students should take this course if they want to understand how economists evaluate social policy beyond simple statements of good intentions. The course combines welfare economics, measurement, causal evidence, and policy evaluation. It shows how to ask whether a policy improves well-being, who benefits, whether effects persist over time, and whether the policy creates social value relative to its costs.

The course equips students with a framework for thinking clearly about how societies can remain prosperous, inclusive, and resilient across generations.