Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues of political economy and industrialization. Seminars will focus on specific geographical areas or topics with appropriate comparative material included. A major research project is required as well as class presentations. Topics change each semester.

Artificial intelligence is today's most-discussed technology, owing to the breakout success of ChatGPT and the resulting competition, investment, and policy challenges. While societal discourse around AI is prone to hyperbole and exaggeration, AI is not the first technology to be simultaneously exciting, promising, terrifying, and poorly understood. This class is designed to introduce students to how political economists reckon with challenging and uncertain new technologies by engaging with the discourse around AI. The course explores a wide range of topics concerning artificial intelligence, such as design and use considerations, employment impacts, regulation, energy policy, and climate change.

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