Master's Programs in Economics: Professor Timur Kuran Discusses the MAPE Program

Professor Timur Kuran discusses the M.A. Analytical Political Economy degree, a special joint program of the Departments of Economics and Political Science at Duke University.

[evangelistjohn]

Thank you for the exposé, I am a Nigerian, and I have a Bsc hons in Economics and I'll love to do my Masters Degree Program abroad in Economics of Development, I am looking at the U.S, can I get a guide please?

[michelangelobuonarroti]

While I was a freshman in highschool I discovered exactly what I wanted to do in terms of my career and consequently I searched for and found the academic subjects that I would need to learn and know, of which I would apply in my career. So, I decided to then drop out of my sophomore year in highschool and complete an online highschool program which I did strictly for the sake of my parent’s peace of mind. But what I had in mind was to then develop a list of all the academic disciplines that I wanted to learn and know. So, I then began to search for the outlines of each individual academic discipline. To further explain, one of the subjects I wanted to learn was economics, so in pursuit of teaching myself economics, logically, I searched for all the subfields/sub-subjects of economics. I found all the several subfields of economics which to name a few included: microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, development economics, economic history, labor economics, financial economics, industrial organization, political economy and much more. I found all the sub-subjects of the subject of economics, however, I now needed to order all of these sub-subjects in a chronological progressive order, which would start with the beginner level sub-subject and continue all the way to the most advanced sub-subject of economics. The problem I encountered was that I couldn't find any sources that had all the sub-subjects of economics ranked in a chronological order. I went to the websites of Harvard, MIT, Yale and others in hope of finding what I was looking for, but I found out that what I was looking for was not provided by any of these sources. And so this is the problem that I am facing right now, how can I compose an outline of all the academic subjects that I want to learn, and create a chronological and progressive list of all the sub-subjects of all the academic subjects I want to learn, from beginner level sub-subjects to the advanced level sub-subjects .
Not only do I want to learn economics, but also business, law, psychology, history, computer science and others. And for each of the academic disciplines that I want to learn, I first need to create a list of each disciplines’ sub-subjects of which I can then learn in order in accordance with the progressive education I’m pursuing.
And also I am aware of the fact that for each of the sub-subjects of the academic disciplines that I want to learn, I will need correlating educational material (textbooks, books, etc), but this is the least of my worries because I can easily attain such information. My chief concern is to be able to compose an outline of each academic discipline that I want to learn.

So, what guidance can you offer me in my pursuit of this. Are you aware of any pre existing sources that include what I’m looking for, do you have any suggestions of how I approach these outlines of the subjects I want to learn? Whatever guidance and direction that you have I greatly appreciate.