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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30200. The course is an introduction to the "other" side of economics: heterodox economics or political economy. Political economy perspectives include Marxian, Post-Keynesian, radical, institutionalist, feminist, and other apporoaches. The course will also investigate the theoretical and social consequences of different approaches, and how policies and institutional changes that promote social justice and human dignity can be formulated in our current economic environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30220. An introduction to Marxian economic analysis. Topics include the differences between mainstream and Marxian economics, general philosophy and methodology, Marxian value theory, and critical appraisals and current relevance of Marx's "critique of political economy."
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30240. The course examines the consequences of wars, including international wars, civil wars and terrorism. It also examines approaches to peace buidling and post-war resconstruction. While it focuses mainly on economic factors at work and makes use of the tools of economic analysis, it adopts a broader political economy framework.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major theories of justice, both ancient and modern. Readings include representatives of liberal theorists of right, such as John Rawls, as well as perfectionist alternatives. The course also serves as the core seminar for the philosophy, politics, and economics concentration.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30260. The course is divided into two parts. The first part provides an overview of the institutional and empirical features of the developing world, followed by a survey and critical evaluation of the conventional development theories. The second part looks into the selected topics evoking the critical, controversial stakes in Third World development debates today. The topics include; rent-seeking activities, land tenure and peasantry, micro-financing, corporate governance, state and market failure, market and democracy, income-distribution and poverty, feminism in development, ethnic conflicts in resource use, and population pressures. The approach taken in this course is a political-economy perspective with references to the historical, cross-cultural, and empirical materials. The course aims at providing the students with intellectual spaces for alternative development paradigms and strategies. Where appropriate, the tools used in economic analysis will be reviewed at an elementary and accessible level.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30270. Economists often fret over whether they qualify as a hard science, but of late, they have begun to turn the tables and apply their theories to the operation of the sciences themselves. This phenomenon is related to the increasing commercialization of science since the 1980s, but other factors include: a shift within economics to portray the market as an ideal information system, the globalization of the modern intellectual property regime, and the transformation of the post- Cold War University. These phenomena all have profound political and social consequences for the future, and so we will not restrict the course to a few abstract models, as is frequently the case in economics curricula. Part of the course consists of a discussion of what topics the 'economics of science' should take as its subject matter. The remainder explores some of the major transformations, especially with regard to intellectual property and the social structures of science. In this class we describe the changing history of the organization and subsidy of scientific research, especially (but not exclusively) in America; and then we survey the different classes of economic theories applied to the scientific process. The second half of the course is then concerned with issues in the modern globalization and privatization of science, focusing on various case studies.
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3.00 Credits
A discussion seminar. This course will examine the recent experience of the US and global economies with financial crises, especially the most recent crisis involving housing speculation, financial derivatives, and banking. The course will use the tools of political economy to address this question, in particular theories and perspectives drawn from the writings of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Polanyi, and Thorstein Veblen, among others. It will examine historical and structural changes in the financial system over the past 30 years, and how these changes have affected the behavior of financial crises. In addressing prospects for change, the course will examine policies, institutions, and the basic structures of power and influence in the economy.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30410. A study of the development of common and statutory law with reference to industrial relations in the United States with emphasis on the case method.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30420. A study of the development of common statutory law with reference to discrimination in the United States on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, and disability, and giving emphasis to the case method.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the seminar version of ECON 30430. The analysis of the procedures and economic implications of collective bargaining as it now operates in the United States. Emphasizes a game theory approach resulting in the negotiation of a labor contract
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