School of Liberal Arts: Political Economy
2008-2009 Academic Year
454
Office:
The Murphy Institute, Department of Political Economy
108 Tilton Hall
Phone:
504-865-5317
Fax:
504-862-8755
Website:
www.murphy.tulane.edu
Program Administrators
Richard F. Teichgraeber III, History (Director)
John Howard, Philosophy (Associate Director)
Core Teaching Faculty
Eric Mack, Philosophy
Douglas R. Nelson, Economics
Mary Olson, Economics
Jonathan M. Riley, Philosophy
Jeffrey Stacey, Political Science
Martyn P. Thompson, Political Science
The political economy major aims to promote sustained reflection on the
interrelations of political and economic activities and institutions. It provides
undergraduate students with the basic skills of economic analysis. The major is
also based firmly on the view that the study of the interrelations of politics and
economics has a rich humanistic tradition and that its pursuit can encourage
sustained reflection on fundamental values. Political economy is an
interdisciplinary major built on a core of eight required courses and five
additional courses drawn from economics, political science, history and
philosophy.
This major is designed to avoid the sometimes excessive specialization that
characterizes more traditional undergraduate majors. While providing students
basic skills of economic analysis, the political economy major at Tulane is
distinctively based on the view that technical economic analysis should not be
divorced from a broader concern for understanding the moral and historical
foundations of economic institutions and political structures.
The requirements of the political economy major include the following core of
eight courses:
ECON 101 Introductory Microeconomics
ECON 102 Introductory Macroeconomics
ECON 301 Intermediate Microeconomics
PECN 301 Introduction to Political Economy
PECN 302 Political Economy: An Historical Overview