Field-based research internship with, or related to, a cooperative enterprise. Students gain experience in doing applied economic research in the context of collaboration with faculty, other students, and owners/managers of cooperative firms. This internship is required for completion of the Certificate in Applied Economics Research on Cooperative Enterprise.

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This course focuses on the economics of women, minorities and work in the labor market and the household. Using economic theory along with empirical investigation, we will study issues such as employment decisions, earnings determination, occupational choice, discrimination, and family formation. Emphasis will be placed on public policies related to the labor market experiences of women and minorities.

This course will examine the economics of socially constructed groups and the inequalities in income, wealth, and power between them. The course will include, as a central feature, an examination of inequalities based on race and ethnicity. However, the course will also explore economic dynamics and disparities between a range of socially constructed groups, including those based on gender, caste, nationality/citizenship, different concepts of class, and sexuality.

This course examines the complex relationships between the process of economic development and gender inequality. Students will be introduced to the theoretical frameworks and debates that have shaped the analysis of gender and economic development. This will be followed by an exploration of the interactions between economic development policy and gender relations in the global South.

Focusing on Calcutta (present day Kolkata) and Bombay (present day Mumbai), the two most important port cities and industrial centers of British India, this course examines how trade and industrialization shaped urban society and politics in colonial India.

The history of Capitalism has often been portrayed as having a singular origin in the process of enclosures in the English countryside and the rise of factories in English cities. This course explores the antecedents of institutions and instruments which have been widely associated with Capitalism but were in use in various part of the globe prior to the Industrial revolution in England. In examining these histories students get to understand our shared economic past and more critically appreciate the present.

Liars' Economics will introduce students to skeptical and effective consumption and production of information in the era of big data. Students will learn how to spot and avoid statistical pitfalls, irrational decisions, fake news, information out of context, and blind faith. The course will draw from historical examples and current events and from contemporary debates in economics and political economy. Students will practice interpreting, visualizing, and writing about big data.

This class provides a thorough introduction to the field of international political economy (IPE), and thus to the study of how the global economy is governed. The class first reviews different theoretical approaches to international political economy and its foundational concepts. We will cover hegemonic stability theory, the economic benefits of creating international institutions and transnational regulatory standards, and how economic hierarchies structure the world.