A Survey of Global Political Economy

3 cr · Undergraduate

Provides students with a systemic intellectual history of the field of Global Political Economy. The course delineates Global Political Economy as a distinctive scholarly tradition, discusses the separation of economics and politics, and surveys the tradition from classical political economy through historical materialism, development economics, imperialism, world systems theory, and more. Students will relate these approaches to contemporary issues in GPE such as economic and ecological crises, inequality, or corporate power.