2952-416 STED [AY 2022 Fall] Meeting 1

Course Syllabus | Fall Schedule

    • Welcome to all students!
    • Please fill out this student details form.
    • 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.