DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS | FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | HARVARD.EDU

Classes

Ec 1018 Cultural Economics

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2013

Explores the importance of culture on economic outcomes, focusing on how heterogeneity of preferences affects economic choices and where those differences come from. Theoretical topics include group identity, social interactions and networks, evolutionary selection.

Ec 2412a Political Economics

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2013

Ec 2412a Course page

Discusses several research areas in political economy, including the origins of the state, comparative political systems, theories of economic reform, fiscal problems in democracies, rule of law, privatization, regulation, and elections and the economy.