BAEcon Development Studies / Course details

(ECON10071 Advanced Mathematics or ECON20071 Advanced Mathematics) and (ECON10171 Principles of Microeconomic Theory 1 or ECON10221 Microeconomics or ECON10331 Microeconomics 1) and (ECON10181 Macroeconomic Analysis 1 or ECON10241 Macroeconomics 1 or ECON10252 Macroeconomics 1)

• Provide an overview of the process of development in the long run
• Discuss the role of society in an economy's growth process
• Provide an overview of the most important theories of economic growth, their empirical evaluation, and their implications

• Introduction: economic growth in the long run
• Innovations and ideas: endogenous growth theory
• The Malthusian hypothesis and the demographic transition
• From stagnation to growth: unified growth theory
• The role of culture, institutions, and geography

New content will be delivered to students asynchronously (readings) as well as synchronously through lectures. The virtual learning environment (VLE) will clearly guide students through the different sources of content.

Students' learning will be supported by offering regular tutorials in smaller groups. In these tutorials students will be given the opportunity to work on problems and discuss applied cases with their peers and teaching staff as well as practice their presentation skills.

Tutorials are an important source of formative feedback for students as they will be able to assess their state of understanding of the material through engagement in tutorials. In addition, students will be able to use a discussion board in which they can test their understanding as well as ask questions to their peers and the teaching staff.

In addition to these formative feedback opportunities, the in-term assessment (see below) will provide summative and formative feedback to students.

• Understand the theory and empirics of economic growth and development
• Understand the determinants of economic growth and development

• Critically evaluate applied work and policies in the field of economic growth and development.
• Understand limitations of the economic growth and development literature

• Independently identify and assess relevant literature

• Communicate questions, methods and results from the economic growth and development to an economic but also to a non-specialist audience
   

Coursework 1 800 words (25%)

Coursework 2 800 words (25%)

Final Exam (50%)

Primary readings for the course are the following:

Oded Galor. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality. Bodley Head.

Additional readings on specialised topics and empirical case studies are made available each week via the online learning platform.

Synchronous activities (such as Lectures or Review and Q&A sessions, and tutorials), and guided self-study.