Classes

Seminar speakers present papers on macroeconomic topics, including issues relating to monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth, the role of institutions, and other research issues in the field.

The social-science approach to religion seeks to explain how religions evolve, make us richer or poorer, and influence the daily lives of people around the world. A controversial, but useful, approach views organized religion as a market in which alternative religions and...

This junior seminar will cover theoretical and empirical research on economic growth and rare macroeconomic disasters. Students will be expected to participate actively in class, to prepare a presentation that discusses and critiques one or multiple articles, and to write a...

The study of the political economy of religion is grounded in two intellectual strands of thought developed in economics and sociology. The economic approach views religious competition and church-state relations as market phenomena. The absence of state religion allows for...

Topics include discrete-time and continuous-time dynamic programming, consumption, investment, economic growth, and business cycles.

Current research on religion and political economy will be presented by outside speakers and Harvard faculty and students.