History and Theory of World Economy

For this class no special pre-requisites are required. This course is accessible to anyone with a solid under-graduate background in social sciences. This course presents systematic understanding and critical evaluation of key concepts and theoretical approaches in political economy with emphasis on world economy. The main goal of this course is to provide students with understanding of historical evolution as well current driving forces of the world economy. In other words, this course tries to explain how the world economy got to be where it is today, focusing on the disparities between the rich and the poor nations. We also discuss neo-classical methodology, political economy of international monetary relations, capital mobility and financial crisis, euro and the EMU, and further aspects of globalization. In addition students are also led to formulate their own research question in the topic of their interest.