Current research topics in theory and applications of econometrics.
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Fall speakers cover issues in growth and development. Spring speakers alternate between "growth and institutions," focusing on the macro aspects of growth and development, and "labor and development," focusing on the micro aspects.
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Intended for students writing dissertations related to economic history themes and/or methodology and for others with interests in economic history. Discusses research papers presented by scholars at Harvard and elsewhere.
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A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War II to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey.
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Core analysis and basic empirics underpinning economic models of climate change. This topic is an evolving area on the research frontier of applied theory that is currently of great interest to economists. Develops relevant aspects of time discounting, economics of uncertainty, modern cost-benefit analysis, capital-theoretic dynamics, and optimal control theory. The primary application is to environmental economics, especially climate change.
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Examines health issues in developing countries from the standpoint of economics, with focus on applied microeconomic research and econometric methods. Specific topics include private and social returns to health, the effect of health on growth and development, gender differences in health, structural problems in delivery, health finance, technology adoption and behavioral change, infant mortality, worms, AIDS, malaria, and the long-run impact of disease. For each topic, special attention is paid to the identifying causal effects that inform the design of public policies, and contrast the lessons learnt from this approach to those obtained from observational studies.
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Considers a range of issues relating to national security, including bioterrorism, the market for nuclear weapons, the defense industry, the dependence on imported oil, intelligence, sanctions, etc.
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This seminar probes how economic thinkers from the right and left view human behavior and the proper role of government in society. Each week, seminar participants read and discuss a brief, nontechnical, policy-oriented book by a prominent economist. Regular writing assignments are also required. Students should have some background in economics, such as an AP economics course in high school or simultaneous enrollment in Social Analysis 10.
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Albert Einstein has become the icon of modern science. Following his scientific, cultural, philosophical, and political trajectory, this course aims to track the changing role of physics in the 20th- and 21st- centuries. Addresses Einstein's engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, and technology, and raises basic questions about what it means to understand physics and its history.
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Overview and analysis of comparative economic development during the last half millennia. Examines the emergence of modern economic growth in Europe after 1500, and the forces that led to the great divergence in prosperity in the 19th century. Also considered: colonialism, communism, fascism, and revolution.
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Examines how and why communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Places the events of 1989/1991, usually considered sudden and shocking, within the political, economic, social, and cultural context of the surrounding decades (1970-2000). Considers both international and domestic factors, including the Cold War and the arms race; ideology and dissent; consumption and culture; oil, economics and the environment; nationalism and civil war; gender and health. Investigates the role of structural conditions and contingency in history.
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The nature and history of matter revealed by astronomical observation and experimental physics. Explores the Big Bang and models of the universe, stellar evolution and supernova explosions, evidence for invisible matter, and the development of structure in the universe. Demonstrates the physical principles used to interpret astronomical data and to construct a model for the evolution of the universe on the microscopic and cosmic scales. Examines the way microscopic properties of matter determine properties of people, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole.
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This course will fulfill the concentration requirement for a research course requiring the completion of an historical essay based on primary materials. It will explore the causes, course, and consequences of the English Revolution by focusing on selected topics covering the range of issues that dominated the period from the convening of the Lord Parliament to the execution of Charles I. Emphasis will be on research techniques and the use of seventeenth century sources.
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A study of major 18th-century autobiographical, fictional, and philosophical texts that explore the paradoxes of the modern self at a time when traditional religious and philosophical explanations were breaking down. Writers to be read include Mme. de Lafayette, Boswell, Voltaire, Gibbon, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Franklin, and Blake.
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This course will focus on Paul's historical and theological argument through a careful reading of the Greek text. An attempt will be made to discover the early reception of the epistle in ancient Christianity.
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A study of the life, thought, and actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. An ethical analysis of his primary concepts, ideas, and strategies based upon a reading and discussion of his writings and their sources.
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Examines the Western secular tradition through the work of three prominent modern theorists whose critiques of religion - in social and political theory, in moral philosophy, and in pyschoanalysis and anthropology - are motivated by ethical concerns.
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Focuses on social, artistic and literary images of otherness in the French Enlightenment. Making the foreign familiar, an ethnographic imaginary developed, key to self-reflection and critique. Writers and artists include Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Watteau, Boucher, Vien.
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Reading and discussion of major texts of the European Enlightenment, from the late 17th century to the late 18th century, with particular attention to the intellectual community that produced the Encyclopedie and to the theory of religion. Readings in Spinoza, Locke, Bayle, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Diderot, Rousseau, Hume and Kant.
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An introduction to Renaissance and Reformation scholarship. Both classic and recent studies are read and discussed, and new fields of research explored. Attention given to a variety of national traditions and to the major historiographical controversies.
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Investigates the Evangelical tradition from its origins in the religious revivals of the eighteenth century to its contemporary role in American culture and society. Will explore the complexities of gender, ethnicity, social class, and political culture. Will make use of primary and secondary materials to shed light on Evangelical theology, spirituality, and cultural expression throughout the North Atlantic region and beyond.
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This course explores the biological significance of cooking and other forms of food-processing, including their effects on nutrition, physiology, cognition and social behavior. It incorporates a study of human evolution, hunter-gatherer lifeways, the pros and cons of food-labelling systems, and some cooking lessons. The focus on food-processing provides an introduction to many theoretical and practical questions in the field of human evolutionary biology.
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