This course is designed to study major economic thinkers and their contributions to economic theory and policy from the 18th century to the present. We will read original texts and learn about lives and work of some of the most important contributors to economics and political economy: Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and more. We will explore how intellectual currents and ideas influenced economic thought in the past, and how, in turn, the works of key economists have shaped their world. At the end of the course students will be able to understand how economics evolved to its present state, to compare major traditions in economic thought, to critically examine different schools of thought, and put present-time policy debates in the appropriate historic and intellectual context. (Lecturer: Slavisa Tasic)
