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| | Economics - The New School for Social Research |
 | | The Department of Economics offers a broad and critical approach to the study of economics, covering a wide range of schools of thought, including Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics; the classical political economy of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx; structuralist and institutionalist approaches to economics; and neoclassical economics. |
 | | The courses of study emphasize the historical roots of economic ideas, their application to contemporary economic policy debates, and conflicting explanations and interpretations of economic phenomena, within the context of a rigorous training in the conceptual, mathematical, and statistical modeling techniques that are the common methodological basis of contemporary economic research. |
 | | The aim of the Economics department is to put what Robert Heilbroner called "the worldly philosophy"informed, critical, and passionate investigation of the economic foundations of contemporary societyat the heart of the educational and research enterprise. |
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