Economic Policies in the age of Globalisation : knowledge, finance and development

Post-crisis imbalances, the slow pace of economic growth, the catching-up process of emerging-market economies, and intensifying environmental challenges across the globe necessitate consistent rethinking of economic policy-making. New policies are needed, and these will have to be managed in coordinated fashion. There is hence a growing need for well-integrated economic expertise capable of proper management of these policies.The main objective of the EPOG Master’s Program is to give birth to a new generation of international experts for both the public and private sector, able to define and assess economic policies as those evolve within different political, social and regional contexts. The program thus aims to provide not only an expertise in a specific field of economic policy (as usually done in existing Masters in economics), but also to enable students to get a global perspective on interdependencies and interactions between economic policies.Most Master’s degrees in economics focus on very narrow fields or specific regions of the world. The added value of the EPOG Master’s Program is its provision of the dual skill of expertise in a particular field and the ability to deal with the complex and systemic dimensions of economic policies. To our knowledge this combination is not offered by any other European Master’s course in economics. The EPOG Master’s will (i) give students in-depth skills to deal with different economic areas that generally require specialized training and (ii) include multidisciplinary contributions (law, sociology, geography and history, etc.) all of which are necessary for proficiency in economic-policy making in the context of current changes in the global economy.Towards this objective the EPOG Master’s Program goes beyond the reach of standard economic theory to include various heterodox approaches (e.g. Post Keynesian, institutionalist) that may have more to say about the challenges facing national policy makers in a globalized context.