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Instructor: Michael Munger. This course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:25 – 5:40 p.m.

Duke course listing PS103: Prisoner’s Dilemma and Distributive Justice

Economic, political, and philosophical perspectives on distributive justice and the problems in each discipline raised by variations on the prisoner’s dilemma.  Classic texts include Hobbes and Hume, Smith and Marx, Mill and Rawls.  Gateway course to the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics certificate program.

This class meets at Duke for the first half of the semester (in Social Sciences 136*), then at UNC for the second half (in Greenlaw 101.)

Department permission is required for enrollment.  Preference is given to those who have declared the PPE minor.

Cross-listed with POLI 384.002 and ECON 384.002.

Michael Munger’s webpage

*This is the second building on the right, across from Duke’s main library