Course Offerings by term

Course Offerings

Examines the determinants of the levels of national income, employment, rates of interest, and prices. Studies in detail the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy, highlighting the domestic and international repercussions of their implementation.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
12:10
13:30
G-L21
Thursday
12:10
13:30
G-L21

Examines the determinants of the levels of national income, employment, rates of interest, and prices. Studies in detail the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy, highlighting the domestic and international repercussions of their implementation.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
G-L22
Friday
12:10
13:30
G-L22

Examines the determinants of the levels of national income, employment, rates of interest, and prices. Studies in detail the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy, highlighting the domestic and international repercussions of their implementation.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
18:15
G-L22
Thursday
16:55
18:15
G-L22

What are the justifications and implications of using markets, and what arrangements are necessary to establish and protect the commons? This course studies foundational texts of (neo-)liberal economics that aim to legitimize market mechanisms; philosophical treatments and critiques of key concepts, such as rationality and motivation, property and common goods; political analyses of how allocative institutions produce distributional outcomes


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
PL-2
Thursday
13:45
15:05
PL-2

The course examines the historical transformations at the roots of modern industrial economies, framing the emergence and evolution of political economy as an intellectual discipline against this background. Students will be taught to consider the importance of various driving factors in economic history, such as demographic shifts, capital accumulation, technological adaptation, and institutional change. They will also learn how to see these historical transformations through the eyes of eminent thinkers from the past, thus acquiring a robust knowledge of the major topics in the history of political economy. After a brief discussion of different interpretations about the origins of the modern economy, each unit will focus on a specific period in modern world history, combining an overview of the socioeconomic transformations taking place at the time with an in-depth discussion of representative works from that era. Assessment will be strongly oriented toward essay writing, giving students an opportunity to learn how to develop an academic argument respecting the disciplinary practices of economics.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
G-102
Thursday
13:45
15:05
G-102

Studies in depth factors influencing aggregate supply and demand, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and international payments. Develops an analytic framework for the purpose of investigating the interrelationships among principal macroeconomic aggregates. Discusses current issues and controversies regarding macroeconomic policies.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
10:35
11:55
G-102
Friday
10:35
11:55
G-102

What is money? Is money related to taxes? What is the role of public debt? Do money, debt, and taxes affect the economy? In this class we will learn how economists answer those questions. We will relate those answers to current and past historical events, as well as analyze how those topics affect global economic governance.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
G-113
Friday
13:45
15:05
G-113

This course provides an analysis of trade theories and their monetary aspects in global and open economy. The course begins by explaining the rationale behind international trade and welfare gains that emanate from trade and proceeds to discuss the balance of payments accounts, price and output in an open economy, macroeconomic policy under different exchange rate regimes. A special emphasis is placed on the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy, the balance of payment accounts and the determination of the exchange rate. Students will have the opportunity to get a more in-depth understanding of the origin and impact of monetary problems and financial crises in advanced and emerging economics (the United States, EU countries following Brexit, China and Latin America) using a policy approach.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
16:55
18:15
G-207
Friday
16:55
18:15
G-207

Provides the economic rationale for public intervention in markets (public goods, externalities, and distribution), and presents public expenditure issues, such as anti-poverty programs, health care, social security, and revenues, e.g., personal and corporate income taxes, as well as the political economics of public finance.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
G-207
Friday
15:20
16:40
G-207

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics, and economics.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
18:30
19:50
Q-604
Monday
16:55
18:15
Q-604
Thursday
16:55
18:15
Q-604