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.

Level: beginner

Introduction to Complexity

Melanie Mitchell

Santa Fe Institute

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 …

Level: advanced

Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Benjamin Olken

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an efficient way of exchanging goods, why do individuals even create firms?

2019

Level: beginner

Institutional Economics - An Introduction

Voigt, Stefan

Cambridge University Press

Rethinking Regulation of International Finance encapsulates the most important aspects of the development and operation of the international financial system. This book questions the fundamental basis of the existing international financial architecture (soft law) and explores the need for a compliance-based model based on legitimacy of regulations and accountability of the regulatory bodies in international financial stability.

2018

Level: advanced

Rethinking Regulation of International Finance

Uzma Ashraf Barton

Kluwer Law International

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

Level: advanced

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.

Level: advanced

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis

Anwar Shaikh

The New School

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 …

Level: beginner

Networks

Daron Acemoglu; Asu Ozdaglar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology