LS 620 - Power and Money: Understanding a Global Economy in Flux

(3.00 cr.)

Why don't countries with McDonald's go to war with each other? What are the real costs (and benefits) of American energy dependence? What has been the most effective poverty alleviation scheme of the last century (hint: not the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund)? How can people turn trees into HDTVs? Will today's young people ever be able to retire? This course approaches these and other political economy enigmas with lively and erudite discussions of the classics, the controversial, and current events.