ECON 661

Capitalism and its Critics

Name: Capitalism and its Critics

Course Number: ECON 661

Credit(s): 3

Course Description

ECON 661 is an advanced course in economics with a unique perspective on the history of economic thought, particularly critiques of capitalism through the lens of different prominent economists. This course emphasizes economists’ competing visions and beliefs about how capitalism functions and the resulting divergent theoretical frameworks they constructed. Some of the economists covered in this course are Karl Marx, David Ricardo, Thorstein Veblen, Jeremy Bentham, John Maynard Keynes, John Locke, and Thomas Robert Malthus, among many others.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the history of economic thought from the perspective of the divergences in its history.
Learn the essential ideas and logic of divergent economic theories.
Critically analyze the more difﬁcult technical issues pertinent to capitalism.
Understand the tenets of neoclassical economics, particularly in relation to capitalism.

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