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2017-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECO 3332 - The Political Economy of Economic Growth and Development

Credits: 3 hrs
This course combines Economics and Political Science to analyze the economic development process, the various approaches used to understand it, as well as the challenges that face this process. In so doing, the political economy of the development in the world eceonomic system and the challenges this unfolding process has raised for formulating and implementing constructive development policy will be examined. The evolution of development theory is treated as a contest of competing development paradigms, ranging from the modernization paradigm (and reactions to it as evoked in alternative perspectives on development which emphasize dependency, world systems, human development, participatory development, culture, gender, and sustainable development) to the post-modernist challenges to development discourses expressed in post-development. The policy implications and problems raised with each discursive wave in this development process and under neoliberal globalization are expressly flagged. 3 hrs