History of Economic Thought Course
This course links classic economists from Smith to Sen with modern policy debates. It equips professionals to analyse markets, crises, growth, and inequality for designing evidence-based economic strategies. Gain historical insights into economic theories, institutions, behaviour, and power to sharpen policy thinking in a compact format.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
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What will I learn?
Explore key economic thinkers from Smith to Sen, core concepts of growth, distribution, structural change, crises, macro policy, institutions, behaviour, and power. Apply historical frameworks to today's debates on markets, policy, and development for sharper insights.
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- Analyze market and state roles using classical and modern economic theories.
- Evaluate power, institutions, and behaviour in shaping market outcomes.
- Interpret macroeconomic crises and policy debates with historical frameworks.
- Apply insights from Smith to Sen to current issues like UBI, carbon pricing, and antitrust.
- Assess growth, distribution, and structural change using key historical models.
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