Title: Modern Theories of Political Economy Prerequisites: Completion of PE 100 and IAS 45 are required before students can register for the course. Sequence: Students intending to become Political Economy majors will ideally complete PE 101 by the end of their sophomore year. Objectives: PE 101 examines modern approaches to the interaction between economics and politics–what in an earlier age would have been called “moral philosophy.” Building on the knowledge of world history covered in IAS 45 and the thinkers of the classical political economy tradition covered in PE 100, it focuses on the usefulness of alternative theories of political economy, both the classical theories covered in PE 100 and the modern theories of the 20th and 21st centuries in the their historical context

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