Political Economy Concentration
Coordinator: Associate Professor Robert B. Packer
The study of political economy involves issues that range from the analysis of American public policy, the increasing global interdependence of national governments and their economies, the relationship of micro-level to macro-level activity, and the ways that public and private choices affect one another.
Requirements for the Concentration:
Since the study of politics and economics are closely and intimately related, we ask students (1) to get a grounding in several different disciplines; (2) to specialize in one broad area; and (3) to come together in a final senior seminar that cuts across the different fields of specialization.
Students enrolling in the concentration will ordinarily major in economics, history, political science, or sociology/anthropology.
Lower Level Course Requirements (four courses required):
All three of the following:
ECON 110: Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 111: Principles of Microeconomics
POSC 265: Politics of Global Economic Relations
plus one course from:
ECON 250: History of Economic Ideas (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 140: Europe During the French and Industrial Revolutions
POSC 170: International Relations and World Politics
POSC 263: European Political Economy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
Upper Level Course Requirements (one course required):
Course must correspond with broad area of specialization.
American Public Policy:
ECON 270: Economics of the Public Sector (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ECON 277: Public Interest in Private Economic Behavior (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 201: National Policymaking
or World Trade and Development:
ECON 280: International Trade
ECON 281: International Finance
Upper Level Course Electives(four courses required):
Each student will select at least four courses from the two broad areas of specialization listed below in consultation with the concentration coordinator. Three of these courses should be in the same broad area of specialization, and these courses must come from at least two different departments. Courses listed under Upper Level Course Requirements (above) may also count as upper level course electives if they are not being used to satisfy the Upper Level Course Requirements group.
American Public Policy:
ECON 232: American Economic History
ECON 260: Managerial Economics I
ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications
ECON 271: Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
ECON 273: Water and Western Economic Development (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ECON 274: Labor Economics
ECON 275: Law and Economics
ECON 278: Industrial Organization and Pricing Policy
ECON 340: Topics in U.S. Economic History (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ECON 395: Microeconomics and Public Policy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Macro Theory
ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Labor Economics (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 190: Technology in American History
POSC 262: Environmental Policy and Politics
POSC 266: Urban Political Economy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
Carleton Political Science Seminar in Washington D.C. *
POSC 308: Poverty and Public Policy
SOAN 220: Class, Power, and Inequality in America (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
World Trade and Development:
ECON: Carleton Economics Seminar in Cambridge *
ECON 231: Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 250: Twentieth-Century Japan (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 272: Mexico in Historical Perspective (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 274: Brazil from Colonial to Modern Times (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 280: Women and Work in African History (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 346: Imperialism (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 268: International Environmental Law and Politics (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 320: Government and Politics of Africa (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 322: Political Economy of Latin America (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 381: Political Economy of China (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 382: Chinese Economy in Transition (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 383: Political and Economic Integration of Europe
POSC 384: Environmental Policy of the European Union
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China
SOAN 130: Population and Food in the Global System
SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture
SOAN 236: Comparative Historical Sociology: States and Social Revolutions (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
SOAN 312: Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World "Development"
Upper Level Seminar Requirement: (one course)
POSC 360: Seminar in Political Economy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
* selected courses from the off-campus seminar