The dissertation workshop is open to doctoral students who are at the stage of developing a dissertation prospectus. The goal of the workshop is to help students build skills and develop research practices, and to provide a collaborative forum for the purpose of putting together a dissertation prospectus. Through the course of the semester, students are expected to develop a research plan and timeline, share and comment on each other's writings and research ideas, and make significant progress on writing the prospectus.

The ?Political Economy of Corporations? course will answer several key questions: how economic innovation occurs (i.e., what are the social conditions for innovation) and how production processes change over time; to whom do the benefits of innovation go; and how decision-making is structured, in terms of how power is exercised and what the policies and jurisprudence are that govern corporate action. The course will analyze different theoretical answers to these questions, from the neoliberal theory of shareholder primacy, stakeholder corporations, and the theory of the innovative enterprise.

Theoretical and empirical analysis of labor market issues primarily using tools developed in microeconomics and econometrics. First semester: a general survey of neoclassical, institutionalist, and Marxian theories and empirical work on wage determination. Second semester: an intensive analysis of selected topics. Prerequisite for: ECON 781.