{"id":4768,"date":"2020-05-28T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T23:46:51","slug":"online-learning-political-economy-and-economic-development-from-edx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/browse-by-training\/online-learning-political-economy-and-economic-development-from-edx\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Learning: Political Economy and Economic Development from EdX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\n\t\tOnline Learning\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\t“Political Economy and Economic Development”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tCourse run by the MIT on EdX\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

This online course from the MIT on EdX covers topics of political economy and economic development. The lecturers are renowned researchers Abhijit Banerjee and Ben Olken, so it should be a great course. The class starts on June 2, 2020.<\/p>\n\t

About the course (reproduced from the EdX page):<\/a><\/h3>\n

In this class, we will study some of the key theoretical and empirical ideas for why and how politics and institutions affect economic development. We will also look at a variety of empirical examples drawn from throughout the developing world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Length:<\/h4>\n

11 weeks, 12-14 hours per week<\/p>\n

Cost:<\/h4>\n

Free<\/p>\n

Dates:<\/h4>\n

Stars June 2, 2020.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView the course on EdX\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the online courses page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the research page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView other courses related to political economy\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView the latest research in political economy and governance\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This MIT online course in political economy and development taught by field superstars Abhijit Banerjee and Ben Olken starts on June 2, so hurry and check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[498,413,499,414,500,415,501,416,502,417,503,418,504,419,353,459,54,463,56,492,46,351,402],"tags":[437,528,741],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-06-session-in-june-2020","category-06-session-in-june-2020-online","category-07-session-in-july-2020","category-07-session-in-july-2020-online","category-08-session-in-august-2020","category-08-session-in-august-2020-online","category-09-session-in-september-2020","category-09-session-in-september-2020-online","category-10-session-in-october-2020","category-10-session-in-october-2020-online","category-11-session-in-november-2020","category-11-session-in-november-2020-online","category-12-session-in-december-2020","category-12-session-in-december-2020-online","category-e-learning","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-and-e-learning","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-training","category-macroeconomics-and-growth-and-e-learning","category-macroeconomics-and-growth","category-training-all-types-session-dates","category-browse-by-training","category-training-format-and-topics","category-training-online-session-dates","tag-development","tag-online-course","tag-political-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}