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ECO 310: Without a course in history of economic thought students may not be able to fully understand or appreciate the richness of economics as an academic discipline. The depth and breadth of the discipline can remain unexplored and unknown. Without such a course, economics will appear as ahistorical, apolitical, acultural. Critiques of great minds in economics have given rise to different schools of economic thought. Include your long course description here. The long course description should contain 150-400 words..

Course Objective: To make students (i) familiar with great thinkers of economics and their respective major contributions in enriching the discipline of economics; and (ii) capable in recognizing economic perspective and the basis of classification of economic contributions of great minds by schools of thought such as classical, Marxian, neoclassical, institutional, Keynesian, and structural; (iii) trace, explore and identify contemporary economic policies to these schools of thought; and finally (iv) identify, assess and synthesize streams of thought, theories and critiques for drawing policy lessons for developing countries such as Bangladesh.