Search Results

STS.002 Finance and Society

Prereq: None
Acad Year 2025-2026: U (Fall)
Acad Year 2026-2027: Not offered
12 Units. HASS-S; CI-H

Examines finance as a social technology intended to improve economic opportunity by moving capital to where it is most needed. Surveys the history of modern finance, from medieval Italy to the Great Depression, while addressing credit, finance and state (and imperial) power, global financial interconnection, and financial crises. Explores modern finance (since about 1950) from a variety of historical and social-scientific perspectives, covering quant finance, financialization, the crisis of 2007-2008, and finance in the digital age. Enrollment limited.

W. Deringer

See more...

Subjects

https://catalog.mit.edu/subjects/

...Discovery Subjects | Interphase | Terrascope) STS Science, Technology, and...303[J] Prereq: 11.002[J] ; Coreq: 14...

Subjects

Summer

https://catalog.mit.edu/summer/subjects/

...Management SP Special Programs STS Science, Technology, and...303[J] Prereq: 11.002[J] ; Coreq: 14...