Political Economy Concentration
Director: Associate Professor Robert 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
HIST 140: Modern Europe
POSC 170: International Relations and World Politics
POSC 263: European Political Economy
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
POSC 201: National Policymaking (not offered in 20032004)
or World Trade and Development:
ECON 280: International Trade
ECON 281: International Finance
Upper Level Course Electives (three courses required):
Each student will select at least three courses from the two broad areas of specialization listed below in consultation with the concentration coordinator. These courses must come from at least two different departments. Two of these courses will be in the same broad area of specialization with the third coming from the other area. 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 245: Economics of Inequality
ECON 260: Managerial Economics I
ECON 262: Economics of Sports (not offered in 20032004)
ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications (not offered in 20032004)
ECON 271: Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment (not offered in 20032004)
ECON 273: Water and Western Economic Development
ECON 274: Labor Economics
ECON 275: Law and Economics
ECON 278: Industrial Organization and Pricing Policy
ECON 395: Topics in Health Economics
ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Public Policy
ECON 395: Economics of Land, Water and the Environment
HIST 190: Technology in American History (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 262: Environmental Policy and Politics (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 266: Urban Political Economy (not offered in 20032004)
POSC: Carleton Political Science Seminar in Washington D.C.*
POSC 308: Poverty and Public Policy
SOAN 220: Class, Power, and Inequality in America
World Trade and Development:
ECON: Carleton Economics Seminar in Cambridge*
ECON 231: Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics (not offered in 20032004)
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries
HIST 272: Emergence of Modern Mexico
POSC 268: International Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 320: Government and Politics of Africa
POSC 322: Political Economy of Latin America
POSC 381: Politics of Economic Development (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 382: Chinese Economy in Transition (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 383: Political and Economic Integration of Europe (not offered in 20032004)
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China (not offered in 20032004)
SOAN 130: Population and Food in the Global System (not offered in 20032004)
SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 20032004)
SOAN 312: Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World "Development" (not offered in 20032004)
Upper Level Seminar Requirement: (one course)
POSC 360: Seminar in Political Economy
* selected courses from the off-campus seminar