This course surveys contemporary economic thinking as to why some countries are poor and others are rich, and how underdeveloped economies function. The course has four topics: the macroeconomic accumulation of capital, labour, and technology; the co-ordination of production processes; the role of political and legal conventions in determining income levels; and the operation of formal and informal financial markets in developing countries

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