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**ECON 2010A Economic Theory**  
[*Fall 2025*](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156719)  
Covers the theory of individual and group behavior. Topics include consumer theory, producer theory, behavior under uncertainty, externalities, monopolistic distortions, general equilibrium, moral hazard, and adverse selection.  
Enrollment is limited to students in the Economics, Business Economics, and PEG PhD programs.  
Recommended Prep: Mathematics 116 or equivalent; can be taken concurrently.

**ECON 2059 Decision Theory**  
[*Fall 2025*](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156016)  
This course prepares students for pure and applied research in axiomatic decision theory. We start with a rigorous treatment of the classical topics that are at the heart of all of economics (utility maximization, expected utility, discounted utility, Bayesian updating, dynamic consistency, option value). We then delve into a number of modern topics inspired by the observed violations of the classical models ("exotic preferences" used in macro-finance, ambiguity aversion, temptation and self-control). The last part of the course explores the recently flourishing literature on stochastic choice (which is related to, but distinct from, discrete choice econometrics). Prerequisites: basic microeconomic theory at the level of Mas Colell, Whinston, Green; being comfortable with abstract models.

**ECON 2902 Early-Stage Research and Discussions in Theory**  
[*Fall 2025*](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153491)*/*[*Spring 2026*](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/163841)  
Theory Reading Group.

**ECON 3002 Graduate Student Workshop in Theory**  
[*Spring 2026*](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/161811)  
Participants present their work in Economic Theory. Open to doctoral students in Economics. There are some joint sessions with Ec 3001 (Behavioral Economics).  
Prerequisite: Economics 2010a

**Seminar in Economic Theory**  
[*Fall 2025/Spring 2026*](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/seminars-economic-theory)  
For those with an interest in economic theory. Faculty presentations by Harvard and MIT economists and invited guest speakers.