The Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets Mooc led by Professor Marek Dabrowski from Moscow's Higher School of Economics has just started on Coursera -
https://www.coursera.org/course/etem and is summarised thus: "This 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." I'm enrolled and it looks good! However, Professor Dabrowski's style may appear somewhat unreconstructed (or just a little old fashioned) for those accustomed to the razzmatazz of some academic rockstars, despite his "living legend" status in Russia.
Postscript 26.11.2014: I have just discovered this very good article about Marek Dabrowski -
http://www.hse.ru/en/news/edu/137622553.html - who, it turns out, was "co-author of the Polish economic reforms during their most difficult and
intense stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989-1990, he
served as Poland’s Deputy Minister of Finance and was later an advisor
to the Prime Minister, a Member of Poland’s Sejm and an advisor to the
head of the National Bank of Poland. In addition to his position at HSE,
he is currently a fellow under the 2014-2015 Fellowship Initiative of
the European Commission, Directorate General for Economic and Financial
Affairs. His academic research interests include, among others, monetary
and fiscal policies, growth and poverty, currency crises, international
financial architecture, and perspectives of European integration...."
Please Note: Above image is from "Compare the Meerkat" -
http://www.comparethemeerkat.com - and not from "Compare the Markets" mooc.
