Taught by Seth Lerer 24 lectures Seth Lerer is the Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature from 1997 to 2000. Dr. Lerer earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, a second B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to taking his position at Stanford, he taught at Princeton University. In 1996, he was the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the ''dismal science'' of economics as a practical art.
