London School of Economics

This course is suitable for professionals and activists working in journalism or media-related fields as well as students from all backgrounds. It is a unique opportunity to benefit from the LSE’s outstanding research into modern journalism combined with talks by pioneering media professionals. Daily lectures and guest talks give students insights into contemporary cutting edge news media. Seminars encourage students to think and act like journalists facing all the dramatic ethical and technological challenges of reporting the complex and dangerous world we live in. Participants in this course emerge with a better understanding of the shifts taking place in the practices, forms, and processes within the news media and their consequences for the role of journalism in contemporary society.

The course introduces students to the role of property concepts in legal and social thought. Particular attention is paid to the context, development, and function of property forms in contemporary legal systems. The course encompasses a broad range of established and emergent property forms, ranging from questions of copyright and share ownership to aspects of real property. Extensive use is made of historical and other general commentaries on the question of property.

The course combines both analytical and computer-based (data) material to enable students to gain practical experience in analyzing a wide variety of econometric problems. It also discusses how modern data science approaches can be used to answer important economic questions. Students are reading various applied economic papers which apply the techniques being taught. Applications considered include labor, development, industrial organization, and finance. 

This course brings students up to date with modern theories of money and banking and recent developments in the analysis of monetary policy. What are the causes of inflation and deflation? What tools do central banks have, and how does monetary policy affect the economy? How do financial markets work, and why are financial intermediaries needed? In order to answer these and related questions, this course provides a set of tools to analyze monetary policy and the financial sector. The course combines a study of the relevant theory with applications to recent events and policy debates.

This course provides an introduction to the basic theories for understanding consumer behavior. Unlike in traditional business management courses, students dig deeper into fundamental psychological theories that shed invaluable light on how consumers make choices. Using a variety of methods, students explore the entire consumer experience from seeking information, evaluating it, and using it to make strategic decisions. Students learn how this information can be used to form attitudes and influence behavior. Using real-world case studies, students have the tools to apply the course content to real-world business scenarios.

The course provides students with tools for evaluating policy impact and effectiveness. Students learn about the tradeoffs involved in the design of policies and institutions, and the influence of factors like partisanship, lobbying, and globalization. They also examine the effectiveness of reforms that attempt to improve government efficiency and representation, accelerate transitions to sustainability, and govern rapidly emerging technologies. 

This course gives students the conceptual basis and the necessary tools for understanding modern microeconomics at an intermediate level. Students learn about the application of consumer theory, the theory of the firm, general equilibrium and welfare, game theory, oligopolistic markets, and information economics. By applying these theoretical frameworks students tackle important questions such as how firms respond to market stimuli, both in the short and the long run, as well as how game theory can be used to study strategic interactions between decision makers.