A black stencil of Mary Wollstonecraft painted on a wall in London, England. Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is an assigned reading that examines how political economy is connected to the history of gender oppression. (Image courtesy of London Permaculture on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Sally Haslanger
Dr. Rachel McKinney
MIT Course Number
24.201
As Taught In
Spring 2016
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course will provide a selective historical survey of some philosophical approaches to questions of political economy and justice. Political economy is the integrated study of the relationships of government, political processes, property, production, markets, trade, and distribution from the standpoint of assessing these arrangements with respect to human welfare and justice.