Classes

The course will be focused on an examination of the constitutive role of health in human development, and its instrumental role in economic development. It will include discussion of the conceptual issues and measurement problems in health studies, and also in assessing...

A basic course in social choice theory and its analytical foundations. The subject matter will include possibility theorems in voting and in welfare economics. Attention will be paid to implementation theory, the theory of justice, and the analysis of liberties and rights...

Across the world, remarkable improvements in life expectancy have occurred over the past few decades. But global and regional disparities of health outcomes have also surged, and this widening "outcome gap" does not always move in parallel with economic progress, or even...

The course will explore a number of contemporary debates about the nature, scope, and requirements of justice. Is justice an objective standard accessible to reason, or is it, in some sense, the product of human choice? Do we have obligations of justice to all human beings...

An examination of how formal models are used in different disciplines. Examples will be taken from economics, mathematics, physics and philosophy, among other fields.

A basic course in social choice theory and its analytical foundations. The subject matter will include possibility theorems in voting and in welfare economics. Attention will be paid to implementation theory, the theory of justice, and the analysis of liberties and rights.

This course provides the historical depth and the comparative context in which to understand contemporary South Asia through an historical inquiry into the making and multiple meanings of modernity. It explores the history, culture, and political economy of the subcontinent...

A basic course in social choice theory and its philosophical foundations. An examination of "impossibility" results, collective rationality, domain restrictions, interpersonal comparability, and the role of rights and liberties.