14.773 Political Econ: Insts & Dev

Lecture: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-12:00 (E51-151)

Recitation: Fridays, 4:00-5:30 (E51-395)

Instructors:

Daron Acemoglu: daron@mit.edu

Jacob Moscona: moscona@mit.edu

Teaching Assistant:

Jie Zhou: jiezhou@mit.edu; OH: Fridays 5-6 pm (E52-548)

Course Description

This course is intended as an introduction to the newly emerging field of political economy of institutions and development. Its purpose is to give you both a sense of the frontier research topics and a good command of the tools in the area. The reading list is intentionally long, to give those of you interested in the field an opportunity to dig deeper into some of the topics in this area. The lectures will cover the material with *’s in detail and also discuss the material without *’s, but in less detail.

Grading: The course grade will be a combination of a final exam and 5 problem sets, with 25% weight on problem sets.