Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets - a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) taught by CASE Fellow Marek Dabrowski

Marek Dabrowski, co-founder, then Chairman of the Supervisory Council and President of CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research (until 2011), currently CASE Fellow, is teaching a course on Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets that is available for free on Coursera -  a platform offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). Everyone is welcome to participate for free and learn about key economic and political challenges related to transition from the centrally planned economy to market system, history of market reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and the contemporary role of emerging-market economies in the global economy.

The course concentrates on challenges faced by transition and emerging-market economies, i.e. middle- and low-income countries. It starts from a brief history of communist economic system based on central planning in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, its evolution and collapse at the end of 1980s/ early 1990s and subsequent transition to a market system in 1990s and 2000s. Then it analyzes experience of market reforms in China, India, other Asian countries, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America at the same period. Finally, it discusses the problems of contemporary global economy and global and regional economic governance with the special focus given to emerging-market economies and their role.

The course starts on November 24th, 2014. Find our more and sign up on www.coursera.org!