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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 180.301, 550.111, and either 180.367 or 551.302 or Perm. Req’d. Seminar on quantitative concepts, decision-making, and strategy in business organizations. Overall context is ‘value’ – how it is measured and maximized long term. Microeconomic theory of the firm, competitive analysis, corporate finance.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 180.301 - In this course, we undertake a semester-long research project from beginning to end. Students will gain advanced knowledge of the functioning of financial markets, will be able to apply their econometrics technique, and will develop a deep understanding of the process of creating research. The course is not based on lectures. Rather, the class will decide on a research question, and students will work together to develop hypotheses, gather data, and analyze the data to provide new insight onto the issue. Grading is based on participation, periodic drafts of the research in progress, a final paper, and a final presentation. In past semesters, we have analyzed the workings of new issues (IPO) markets, examined long-term patterns in M&A activity, measured the impact of technology on trading costs, and studied the impact of the 2008 ban on short selling in financial stocks. Intersested Students should contact me with any questions. folhin@jhu.edu
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 180.301 Benefits of good health and its costs. Health demand and supply in poor countries. Welfare economics of Public Health. Cross-listed with Public Health Studies
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3.00 Credits
Discussion of the economic experience of post-colonial Africa emphasizing topics rather than a historical narrative: agriculture, manufacturing, trade, population, education, health, public finances among others. Students are responsible for a research paper, topic choice and paper development in close consultation with the instructor, students to give a class presentation on paper findings. Course qualifies as writing intensive for the writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the comparative study of political regimes, institutions and processes, with illustrations drawn from selected countries in different world regions. These may include Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Mexico, China, India, Iran, Nigeria, and Russia, or others.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of the presidency. It assumes a basic understanding of the American political system as provided in a course such as Introduction to American Politics or its equivalent. We explore the evolution of the modern presidency, how contemporary presidents operate in the political System, and the sources of successful presidential leadership. (AP)
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3.00 Credits
This is not a class in the history of political thought. Instead, it is an opportunity for a selective, circumscribed, but very focused engagement with some of the most powerful and provocative texts in that history. We will read selections from six thinkers (Socrates, Machiavelli, Locke, Marx, Nietzsche, and Foucault), focusing on three themes (Virtue, Labor, and Power). These texts have all profoundly shaped the way we think about politics, and they are texts that resonate with our own political problematics today.
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3.00 Credits
Is television political? No one doubts the pervasiveness of television, nor that it has an impact on society and individuals. This class will go beyond those facts to investigate the question of whether there is an essentially political dimension intrinsic to some popular television shows. We will study television through the lens of political theory, and we will attempt to "read" television shows like texts in political theory. The goal will be to explore the cultural politics of television.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of recurrent themes and aspirations in American political thought, focused around the expression of five American "dreams": Iconoclasm, Independence, Upward Mobility, Land, and Equality. We will survey a variety of American thinkers, from the Puritans to Norman Mailer, and examine their political dreams in relation to the concepts of ideology, illusion, and myth.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar focuses on the relations between business and government throughout the world. Class will read historical and contemporary author's conceptualizations of the relationship. 30 Page term paper is required.
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