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Latin American Development in the Long-run
ECON-4502
James Robinson
Professor, Harvard University
Leopoldo Fergusson
Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pablo Querubín
Post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Dates: July 5 to 22 (Except wednesday July 20)
Schedule: 9:00 am. to 12:00 m.
Class Room: ML-607
The course is given in English by professor Robinson and it is given in Spanish by Fergusson and Querubín.
The main topic of this course is to discuss the factors that have shaped the long-run economic and political development of Latin America with a special emphasis on Colombia. We focus on both cross-country and within-country differences. After discussing various types of hypotheses the main focus will be on the political economy of institutions.
