Economics 715 - Money, Power, and Elites

The political economy of financial power and the study of elites. The course aims to generate foundational knowledge within the study of a few different areas within political economy scholarship: the political economy of financial regulation, interest group mobilization, business conflict, elite networks, the relationship between money and the state, the creation of central banks, the role of money as an instrument in political lobbying, the discipline of international finance on policymaking, the governance of international and transnational institutions that shape the world of money, and the deepening role that money plays in affecting contemporary political culture.

Open to Graduate students only.