Ricardo Hausmann
Teaching
Professor Hausmann currently teaches two courses at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government:
PED-130: Why Are So Many Countries Poor, Volatile and Unequal (fall semester)
This course will look into the determinants of growth, volatility, and inequality and will link them to the current themes in development policy. The course will cover the relationship between these three problems and a varied class of determinants such as savings, human capital accumulation, demography, geography, and the macroeconomic, structural, contractual, and political institutions. Prerequisites: The course has no formal prerequisites, but basic knowledge of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and acquaintance with development issues is strongly recommended.
PED-309: Development Policy Strategy (fall semester)
This course will integrate a variety of analytical tools in order to assess the development challenges facing countries and thus serve as a foundation for the design of an overall development strategy. The course will deal with assessing growth, macroeconomic balance, fiscal policy, the labor market, the sources of inequality and volatility, and the quality of structural policies. The course will be applied in the sense that it starts from observations and explores how different theories make sense of the facts. Students will be required to make assessments of these aspects in specific countries all through the course.
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