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Theories of Development Economics
- To understand economic development as an aspiration for betterment that has existed since at least the Industrial Revolution
- To learn how development economics was framed by the experiences of the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War.
- To recognize the tension in development economics between freeing the market and assigning the state a critical role vis-à-vis the market.
- To identify the different theoretical schools of development economics since the mid-20th century until today.