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MPhil - Master of Philosophy
UCL (University College London)
Full Time
May 2026
4 Year
Join the next generation of world-leading interdisciplinary scholars in economic and public policy, innovation policy and its governance. The Economic Policy and Political Economy MPhil/PhD prompts doctoral researchers to blend and synthesise different tools to offer truly interdisciplinary analyses on how public and economic policy and innovation can be harnessed to tackle global challenges. The Economic Policy and Political Economy MPhil/PhD is centred on fostering path-breaking research into ways to understand public value and public purpose and enhance public and economic policy.Our PhD in Economic Policy and Political Economy route is for students who are interested to explore the relationship between states and markets and the economic challenges facing modern capitalist economies. Our faculty and wider research community have a broad range of research interests in this field, covering both theoretical and more applied topic areas. This includes development economics and structural change, decolonisation economics, financial and macroeconomic policy, banking and money, political economy of science and technology, the economics of innovation and intellectual monopolies, ecological economics and green transition, sustainable finance, institutional and evolutionary economics and the economics of land and housing.
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