Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example It is however only one of many networks within which we are situated Our …

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Networks

Daron Acemoglu; Asu Ozdaglar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times.

2013

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Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

Paul Hare, Gerard Turley

Routledge

In this course you will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education health gender the family land relations risk informal and formal norms public policy and institutions While studying each of these topics we will delve into the following questions What determines the decisions of …

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Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Benjamin Olken

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life" by Paul Seabright is an engaging and informative book that explores the complex relationship between economic behavior and human instincts. Seabright uses real-world examples to present complex ideas in a clear and accessible way. The author argues that the market is not only a place for exchanging goods and services but also relies on trust, cooperation, and social norms.

2010

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The Company of Strangers

Paul Seabright

Princeton University Press

In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity.

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Introduction to Complexity

Melanie Mitchell

Santa Fe Institute

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

2002

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Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press

Anwar Shaikh seeks in his lectures for alternative explanations for empirically observed macro and microeconomic patterns of economic fluctuations, price volatility, and economic development.

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Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis

Anwar Shaikh

The New School