Applied Macro- and International Economics II
MIT's Sloan School of Management offers this course on sustainable development in societies and economies, examining environmental, social, political, institutional, and organizational dimensions and how they interact. The syllabus covers the basics of government intervention across the judicial system, environmental regulation, social security, and health policy, building skills to weigh which policy tools fit which problems. A separate strand looks at financial innovation, including the internationalization of currencies, mobile payment systems, and cryptocurrencies, and asks what institutional frameworks are needed to keep these developments sustainable. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare include lecture notes, readings, and assignments used in the original Sloan classroom, free to access with no certificate offered. The course sits at an advanced level, assuming some prior grounding in macroeconomics and international finance, and is built for students who want to connect policy design with the mechanics of a changing global financial system.