From Say's Law to the Global Financial Crisis: Thinking about Economic Fluctuations and Instability

Undergraduate

This course investigates the changing ways in which economic fluctuations and financial and economic instability have been analyzed in the two centuries from the debates at the end of the Napoleonic Wars over Say’s Law of Markets and the possibility of a general glut of commodities through to the Global Financial Crisis and the present state of macroeconomics. Prerequisite: Intermediate Macroeconomics ( ECON 2122 or ECON 2126 ) or permission of the instructor. SO T 4pm-5:55pm