Political Economy of Western Europe

Photograph of a map of Western Europe.

Map of Western Europe. (Courtesy U.S. Department of Agriculture.)

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MIT Course Number

17.158

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Spring 2003

Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

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This course includes topics for two short papers and one extended research paper, which can be found in the assignments section.

Course Description

Examines role of European states in postwar period of rapid economic growth and current crisis. Includes analysis of different state traditions ("etatist," liberal, authoritarian); government's role in decline of some economies and rise of others; why and where Keynesianism, indicative planning, and state enterprises were introduced; alternative conceptions of contemporary economic problems (new international division of labor? too few producers? oil shock?); and of policies to deal with them (industrial policy? monetarism? protectionism?).

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Suzanne Berger. 17.158 Political Economy of Western Europe. Spring 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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