This course offers a survey of key structural and policy issues in African economic development. It is intended to provide retrospective and prospective views of African economies, taking into account domestic, regional and global dimensions.

This course examines the emergence and evolution of capitalist forms of economic organization, and their interaction with noncapitalist forms. It begins with the Atlantic economy and the African slave trade, and then covers nineteenth-century industrialization in Britain, France, Germany and Russia. The next readings, which include areas in both the center and periphery of the world economy, are organized by topic: trade and the international division of labor, international finance and foreign investment, imperialism, migration, and changing industrial leadership in the world economy.

The focus of this course is on two fundamental challenges: 1) how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and especially carbon dioxide emissions, sufficiently to stabilize the climate; and 2) to accomplish this goal in a way that also supports rising living standards for economies at all levels of development.

Application of political economy to management of natural resources and environmental quality. Topics include distribution, valuation, property rights, globalization, and selected policy issues.

Pure theory of international trade. Reasons for trade, gains from trade, factor price equalization, commercial policy, trade and economic development, and customs unions.

Introduction to formal macroeconomic models within a broadly behavioral and structuralist tradition, including Keynesian and neo-Marxian theories.

This course will investigate hierarchal identity-based power structures in capitalist societies from a Marxian-Feminist perspective. We will focus on the roles of households, markets, and states in social provisioning and the social reproduction of labor-power.

Alternative concepts of economics and radically different economic theories have always contested for hegemony within economics. The course examines pre-classical, classical, Marxian, neo-classical, and Keynesian theories to stress their differences and conflicts.

Systematic development of static and dynamic theories of aggregative economic behavior and their applications. Prerequisite: ECON 204.

Systematic development of static and dynamic theories of aggregative economic behavior and their applications. Prerequisite: ECON 204.