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    Game Theory

    Game Theory

    This course provides a rigorous treatment of non-cooperative solution concepts in game theory, including rationalizability and Nash, sequential, and stable equilibria. It covers topics such as epistemic foundations, higher order beliefs, bargaining, repeated games, reputation, supermodular games, and global games. It also introduces cooperative solution concepts—Nash bargaining solution, core, Shapley value—and develops corresponding non-cooperative foundations.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Game theory
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    Political Economy I

    Political Economy I

    Political Economy I explores the major social science paradigms for analyzing relations among state, economy, and society. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism and individualism, neo-classical economics, Marxism, sociological and cultural theories, and neo-institutionalism, the seminar examines the fundamental assumptions on which our understanding of the social world and our research are based.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Economics Political science
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    Microeconomic Theory IV

    Microeconomic Theory IV

    The topic of the class is information and contract theory. The purpose is to give an introduction to some of the main subjects in this field: decision making under uncertainty, risk sharing, moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design, and incomplete contracting.

    Subjects:
    Economics
    Keywords:
    Risk assessment Decision making Contracts Microeconomics
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    Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

    Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

    This course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. We will study empirical examples to evaluate theory, focusing on the casual effects of policy interventions on economic outcomes. Topics include minimum wages and employment, food stamps and consumer welfare, economics of risk and safety regulation, the value of education, and gains from international trade.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Microeconomics Policy sciences Political planning
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    Economic Growth

    Economic Growth

    This half semester class will present an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, particularly economic growth. It will focus both on models of economic growth and their empirical applications, and try to shed light on the mechanics of economic growth, technological change and sources of income and growth differences across countries.

    Subjects:
    Economics
    Keywords:
    Economic development Macroeconomics
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    International Trade

    International Trade

    This course will analyze the causes and consequences of international trade and investment. We will investigate why nations trade, what they trade, and who gains (or not) from this trade. We will then analyze the motives for countries or organizations to restrict or regulate international trade and study the effects of such policies on economic welfare. Topics covered will include the effects of trade on economic growth and wage inequality, multinationals and foreign direct investment, international trade agreements and current trade policy disputes.

    Subjects:
    Economics and International Trade
    Keywords:
    Investments International trade Macroeconomics
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    Network Cultures

    Network Cultures

    This course focuses on the social and cultural aspects of networked life through internet-related technologies (including computers, mobile devices, entertainment technologies, and emerging media forms).

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Internet -- Social aspects
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    The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition

    The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition

    This course examines the birth and international expansion of an American industry of political marketing. It focuses attention on the cultural processes, sociopolitical contexts and moral utopias that shape the practice of political marketing in the U.S. and in different countries. By looking at the debates and expert practices at the core of the business of politics, the course explores how the "universal" concept of democracy is interpreted and reworked through space and time, while examining how different cultural groups experimenting with political marketing understand the role of citizens in a democracy.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Presidents -- Election United States Marketing
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    Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

    Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

    This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its representation in recent scholarly accounts and advocacy as well as in other media. Ethnographic and fictional readings along with media analysis help to develop a contextualized and comparative understanding of the phenomena in both past and present contexts. It examines the wide range of factors and agents that enable these practices, such as technology, cultural practices, social and economic conditions, and the role of governments and international organizations. The course also discusses the analytical, moral and methodological questions of researching, writing, and representing trafficking and slavery.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Slavery Human trafficking
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    Memory, Culture, Forgetting

    Memory, Culture, Forgetting

    This course introduces scholarly debates about the sociocultural practices through which individuals and societies create, sustain, recall, and erase memories. Emphasis is given to the history of knowledge, construction of memory, the role of authorities in shaping memory, and how societies decide on whose versions of memory are more "truthful" and "real." Other topics include how memory works in the human brain, memory and trauma, amnesia, memory practices in the sciences, false memory, sites of memory, and the commodification of memory. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology
    Keywords:
    Memory Memory -- social aspects
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