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Philosophy, Politics and Economics
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2024-2025 PPE Lecture: The Constitution and the Presidency
2024-2025 PPE Lecture: The Constitution and the Presidency: Questions and Answers Akhil Reed Amar, (Yale University), September 19, 2024, at Rackham Amphitheater
Ferrando Lecture 2022: Understanding Demonization
The 2022 Ferrando Lecture: "Understanding Demonization", featuring speaker Juliana Bidadanure from Stanford University
Welcome to PPE
The Department of Philosophy, in conjunction with the Department of Economics and the Department of Political Science, offers the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics as an interdisciplinary major in political economy. The program will stress analytic rigor and critical reasoning, and is unique in combining normative inquiry, empirical methods, and formal tools of analysis. It integrates the study of the relationships of government, political processes, property, production, markets, trade and distribution from the standpoint of assessing these arrangements with respect to the interests and progress of humanity.