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MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Political Economy
- Instructors
- Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Prof. Benjamin Olken
- Term
- Fall 2017
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 6 problem sets · 2 exams · 6 solutions · 1 reading · 26 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.770 Introduction to Political Economy, Fall 2017, Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Prof. Benjamin Olken — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Slides
17 files
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lecture 3: Voting and Information Aggregation Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lecture 10: Political Agency Gone Wrong Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lecture 11: Economic Policy Under Representative Democracy Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lecture 12: Political Compromise Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lectures 4 and 5: Voting and Political Decisions in Practice Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lectures 6 and 7: Electoral Politics Gone Wrong Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lectures 8 and 9: Political Agency Download
- 14.770 F17 Acemoglu Lectures 13 and 14: Economic Policy Under Nondemocratic Institutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Ben Olken Lectures 24-27b: Corruption Download
- 14.770 F17 Daron Acemoglu Lecture 1 and 2: Collective Choice and Voting Download
- 14.770 F17 Lectures 18-19: Collective Action Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 15-17: Conflict Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 20-21a: Media Bias Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 20-21b: Media Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 22-23: Bureaucracy Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 24-27a: Corruption Download
- 14.770 F17 Olken Lectures 24-27c: Corruption Download
Assignments and Exam
13 files
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 1 Solutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 2 Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 2 Solutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 3 Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 3 Solutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 4 Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 4 Solutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 5 Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 5 Solutions Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 6 Download
- 14.770 F17 Problem Set 6 Solutions Download
- 14.770 Fall 2017 Problem Set 1 Download
- 14.770 Spring 2012 Final Exam Download
Recitations
9 files
- 14.770 F1& Recitation 1 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 2 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 3 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 4 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 5 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 6 Notes Download
- 14.770 F17 Recitation 10 Notes Download
- 14.770-Fall 2017 Recitation 7 Notes Download
- 14.770-Fall 2017 Recitation 9 Notes Download
Other materials from this course
Course outline
Calendar · Lecture Notes
Lecture 10: Political Agency Gone Wrong
Calendar · Lecture Notes
Lecture 11: Economic Policy under Representative Democracy
Calendar · Lecture Notes
Lecture 12: Political Compromise
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Prof. Benjamin Olken, 14.770 Introduction to Political Economy, Fall 2017.
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