Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Economics

The following is a list of faculty, their expertise and courses that LIDS members may find to be of interest at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Economics Department.  These lists do not represent a comprehensive list of law and development offerings at FAS, and these courses and/or faculty members may not be offered every year, but they are meant to be useful suggestions for students interested in law and development.

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Professor Name	Areas of Interest	Courses Taught
Phillippe Aghion	Economic theory Development Industrial organization	Ec 1370 – Media, Democracy and Economics (Fall 2009) Ec 2390d – The Economic Growth and Development Workshop Ec 2420 – The Monetary and Fiscal Policy Seminar
Pol Antras	Contractual frictions in international trade The international organization of production Patterns of industrialization.	Ec 2535 – Advanced Topics in International Trade (Spring 09) Ec 2540 – The International Economics Workshop Ec 3530hf – Research in International Economics
Eric Chaney	Middle East Economic History	Ec 1341 – The Historical Origins of Middle Eastern Development (Fall 2009) Ec 2339 – The Economics History Workshop Ec 3336hf- Research in Economic History
Richard Cooper	Primary Fields of Interest: International economics, including both international trade and international monetary economics, international environmental and energy issues. Research Topics: Integrating China into the world economic system.	Freshman Seminar 44g : Public Policy Approaches to Global Climate Change (Spring 2010) Ec 2540 : The International Economics Workshop Ec 3530hf : Research in International Economics
David Cutler	Primary Fields of Interest: Public economics, health economics. Research Topics: Why people are in better health, the impact of medical care on the public sector, racial and ethnic segregation.	QR 24: The Business and Politics of Health Ec 2480 : The Public Economics and Fiscal Policy Workshop Ec 2460: Health and Economics Workshop (Spring 2010) Ec 3540chf: Research in Public Economics and Fiscal Policy
Erica Field	Primary Fields of Interest: Development economics, labor economics. Research Topics: Economic demography, microeconomic analysis of development, property rights, health and development.	Ec 980o: Health, Education and Development (Fall 2008) Ec 2390d: The Economic Growth and Development Workshop Ec 3390hf: Research in Economic Development
Richard Freeman	Primary Fields of Interest: Labor economics and institutions, inequality, crime, philanthropy, European labor markets, computer simulation modeling, trade unionism. Research Topics: Growth and decline of unions, effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states, Chinese labor markets, poverty and crime, self-organizing non-union in the labor market, employee involvement programs.	Ec 1818 : Economics of Discontinuous Change (Spring 2009) Ec 2812 : The Labor Economics Workshop
Gita Gopinath	International macroeconomics and trade.	Ec 2530b: International Finance (Spring 2009) Ec 3530hf: Research in International Economics
Richard Hornbeck	Economic History and Development	Ec 2390b. Development Economics I: Microeconomic Issues (Fall 2009) Ec 2339. The Economic History Workshop Ec 336hf. Research in Economic History Ec 3390hf. Research in Economic Development
Dale Jorgenson	Economic growth in China, investment in human capital, international comparisons	Ec 2120: Introduction to Applied Econometrics (Spring 2009)
Michael Kremer	Economic development, health and education in the developing world.	Economics 980g Topics in Economic Development (Spring 2009) Economics 2390c Development Economics: Macroeconomic Issues (Spring 2009) Economics 2390d Growth and Development Workshop (2008-2009) Economics 3390hf Research in Economic Development (2008-2009)
Stephen Marglin	Theory, history, development, methodology.	Social Studies 98ax: Modernization and Development: A Critical Perspective (Fall 2009)
Marc Melitz	Primary Fields of Interest: International Trade and Investment Research Topics: Producer-level responses to globalization	Ec 1535: International Trade and Investment (Fall 2009)
Sendhil Mullainathan	Poverty, Development	Ec 2390b: Development Economics I: Microeconomic Issues (Fall 2009) Ec 2390d: The Economic Growth and Development Workshop Ec 2393: The Design of Development Policy: From Research to Practice (Fall 2009) Ec 3390hf: Research in Economic Development
Nathan Nunn	International Trade Development Economics Economic History	Ec 1393 Poverty and Development (Spring 2009) Ec 2535 Advanced Topics in International Trade (Spring 2009) Ec 2390d: The Economic Growth and Development Workshop (2008-2009) Ec 3390hf: Research in Economic Development (2008-2009)
Amartya Sen	Social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, the economics of war and peace	EC 2085: Economics of Inequality and Poverty
Martin Weitzman	Environmental economics, economics of biodiversity, limits to growth, green accounting, discounting, economics of global warming	Ec 1666: The Economics of Climate Change (Fall 2009) Ec 2680 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Fall 2008) Ec 2690hf Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar