Course Syllabus | Fall Schedule
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- Welcome to all students!
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- Today I will present the course overview and syllabus.
- Begin the first topic which introduces/reviews the concept of development.
- For next week, please read: Sen, A. (1988). The concept of development. Handbook of development economics, 1:9-26.
- Next week we will finish the remainder of the first topic, discuss Sen (1988), and discuss the ethical foundations of economic analysis.
- In two weeks we will discuss chapter 3, “The Making of Prosperity and Poverty,” in Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J.A. (2012) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business.
- If you really want to get a head start on the readings, in three weeks we will likely discuss chapter 2, “The Pentagon-CIA Archipelago,” in Chomsky, N. & Herman, E. S. (2015, 1979) The Political Economy of Human Rights Vol I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. London: Pluto Press.