History of Economic Thought Course
Link classic economists from Smith to Sen with today’s policy debates. This History of Economic Thought Course equips professionals to analyse markets, crises, growth, and inequality for sharper, evidence-based economic strategies. It traces key ideas shaping markets, policy, and development from major thinkers, covering growth, distribution, crises, institutions, behaviour, and power to apply historical frameworks to modern issues.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This History of Economic Thought Course provides a concise overview of key ideas from thinkers like Smith to Sen that shape markets, policy, and development. Learners explore core concepts in growth, distribution, structural change, crises, macro policy, institutions, behaviour, and power, applying classic frameworks to today’s debates like UBI and carbon pricing for historically grounded insights.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Analyse markets versus state roles using classic and modern economic theories.
- Evaluate power, institutions, and behaviour in shaping real-world market outcomes.
- Interpret macro crises and policy debates with historical economic frameworks.
- Apply Smith-to-Sen insights to current issues like UBI, carbon pricing, and antitrust.
- Assess growth, distribution, and structural change with key historical models.
Suggested summary
Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workloadWhat our students say
FAQs
Who is Elevify? How does it work?
Do the courses have certificates?
Are the courses free?
What is the course workload?
What are the courses like?
How do the courses work?
What is the duration of the courses?
What is the cost or price of the courses?
What is an EAD or online course and how does it work?
PDF Course