Course Catalog
| POLS 580 Political Economy | 3 Credits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This course is designed to equip the student with basic concepts and tools necessary to understand the literature and to conduct research in this field. The substantive question is why governments do what they do and with what consequences. Discussions focus on the recent contributions to the political economy of development; principal characteristics of the contemporary world economy, especially patterns of inequality and the varying explanations for their emergence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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