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Economics of Work and Employment — PEC4219.01

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

This seminar explores key questions about people’s laboring lives: Why do people work, and what makes work meaningful? How does work shape well-being and life experiences? We will examine both wage work in the labor market and nonwage work, such as care work within households, and consider how these forms of work intersect.
We will also investigate how ascribed social

Game Theory and Applications — PEC2276.01

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This course introduces game theory as a framework for understanding strategic decision-making in economics and beyond. It examines how individuals, firms, and institutions make choices when outcomes depend on the actions of others, and how incentives shape behavior in interdependent settings.<

The Political Economy of Money — PEC4222.01

Instructor: Emma Kast
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Coins, cash, credit, capital. A medium of exchange, a store of value, a unit of account, a measure of wealth. Money seems to come in many forms and to serve many functions. This course is a quest to discover what money really is from a diversity of perspectives in economic thought. We will address questions such as: Should money be

What is Capitalism? — PEC2267.01

Instructor: Emma Kast
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course offers an introduction to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is,