Issues in Political Economy.

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This class serves as the introductory course for the Aequitas Fellowship Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE). The cohort program offers students the opportunity to explore the ways in which the interaction of the three disciplines helps illuminate the meaning, causes, and at least partial solutions to some of our society’s most pressing social, political, and economic issues: economic growth, inequality, poverty, environmental challenges, democratic legitimacy, and so on. This course introduces students to a set of core historical and contemporary readings in political economy in order to give students a sense of the range of thinking about these issues. (Open to Aequitas Fellowship Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics students only).