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Course Description
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Course Name
History of Economic Thought
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Host University
Queen Mary, University of London
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Location
London, England
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Area of Study
Economics, History, International Economics
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
-ECN106
-ECN111 -
Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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UK Credits
15 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits4
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units6
Hours & Credits
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Overview
Credits: 15.0
Overlap: None
Prerequisite: ECN106 ECN111Mercantilism and the emergence of capitalism; Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations / Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism / Thomas Malthus and population dynamics; Ricardo and his critics / John Stuart Mill and the revision of classical economics; Challenges to Classical Economics: the utopian socialists Owen, Fourier, and Proudhon / Karl Marx; Neoclassical times: A. A. Cournot / Alfred Marshall on optimum pricing and monopoly / Historicism / Léon Walras and the market adjustment mechanism / Pareto, general equilibrium, and welfare economics 20th Century Economics: Thorstein Veblen and american institutionalism / John Kenneth Galbraith; Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, the great depression and the development of modern macroeconomics; Hayek / Milton Friedman, monetarism and rational expectations; Public choice and the new political economy of regulation.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
Semester 1 Associate Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
Level: 5
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