Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Osita Nwanevu Osita Nwanevu in conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on the American crossroads on Oct. 9

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program The PPE major brings together three major approaches to understanding human beings and their social and political interactions.

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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.

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