LSE’s Economics Department is one of the largest in the world. It has an outstanding international reputation based on its research and publications and is acknowledged as the leading faculty in Europe. The size of the Department ensures that all the mainstream areas of Economics are strongly represented in research and teaching.
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Professor Christopher Pissarides for his “collaborative work for the analysis of markets with search frictions”. In addition twelve former members of staff or students have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Sir John Hicks 1972, Friedrich von Hayek 1974, James Meade 1977, Sir Arthur Lewis 1979, Merton Miller 1990, Ronald Coase 1991, Amartya Sen 1998, Robert Mundell 1999, George Akerlof 2001, Leonid Hurwicz 2007, Paul Krugman 2008, Oliver Hart 2016).
Courses start at £2,300 for one session. See the full fees and payments details here.
Applications to the 2019 LSE Summer School have now closed. Applications to the 2020 LSE Summer School will open in November 2019.
Details of the 2019 Economics courses can be found below:
Courses
Session One (17 June – 5 July 2019)
EC101: Introductory Microeconomics EC101 is closed for applications in Session One. This course is still available for enrolment in Session Three.
EC201: Intermediate Microeconomics
EC203: Real Estate Economics and Finance (Course full)
EC204: Financial Markets and the Global Economy: the History of Bubbles, Crashes and Inflations
EC212: Introduction to Econometrics (Limited availability)
EC351: International Economics
Session Two (8 July – 26 July 2019)
EC102: Introductory Macroeconomics
EC200: Introduction to Behavioural Economics (Course full)
EC202: Intermediate Macroeconomics
EC240: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development
EC260: The Political Economy of Public Policy
EC270: Public Finance (Limited availability)
EC307: Development Economics
EC320: Applied Econometrics and Big Data (Course full)
EC341: Industrial Organisation & Introduction to Competition Policy
Session Three (29 July – 16 August 2019)
EC101: Introductory Microeconomics
EC102: Introductory Macroeconomics
EC104: The Wealth (and Poverty) of Nations: Historical Economic Divergence across the Globe
EC212: Introduction to Econometrics
EC235: Economics of European Integration
EC312: Advanced Econometrics
EC321: Money and Banking
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