By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• apply institutional  approaches to compare the first and second wave of globalization.
• apply macroeconomic and international trade theory to conceptualize the trends after the 1980s.
• utilize some important concepts such as  globalization, neoliberalism, Washington Consensus, financialization to understand trends in developing countries after the 1980s.
• compare crises taking place especially in developing countries after the 1980s.
• interpret basic macroeconomic developments in the Turkish economy after the 1980s in reference to the global  developments.