This course explores the relationship between political institutions and economic development, covering key theoretical issues as well as recent empirical evidence

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

444 years, 4 months

Units & Quizzes

16

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Certificate of Completion

Topics include corruption, democracy, dictatorship, and war. Discusses not just what we know on these topics, but how we know it, covering how to craft a good empirical study or field experiment and how to discriminate between reliable and unreliable evidence

Course Currilcum

  • Political Economy and Economic Development: Introduction Unlimited
  • Leaders and Democratic Institutions Unlimited
  • The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Macro Evidence Unlimited
  • The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Micro Evidence Unlimited
  • The Median Voter Theorem Unlimited
  • Voting In Practice Unlimited
  • Selection, Moral Hazard, and Voting Unlimited
  • Sometimes It Gets Complicated: Condorcet’s Paradox and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Unlimited
  • Dictatorships Unlimited
  • Collective Action Lecture 1 Unlimited
  • Collective Action Lecture 2 Unlimited
  • Conflict Lecture 1 Unlimited
  • Corruption Lecture 1 Unlimited
  • Corruption Lecture 2 Unlimited
  • Corruption Lecture 3 Unlimited
  • Corruption Lecture 4 Unlimited