The MSc in Political Economy aspires to be a pioneering programme of study and as such to fill an obvious and long-standing cognitive gap in the study of economic and social phenomena at postgraduate level in Greece.

After a long economic and social crisis in our country, the teaching of economics and social sciences in general continues to be characterized by a surplus of conventionality and a great lack of realism and pluralism. This results in the educational weakness of students in explaining and empirically documenting the functioning of modern capitalist economies, as well as the mechanisms of economic policy making. Important theorists of economic science (especially during the period when its official title was Political Economy) such as Marx, Veblen, Keynes, Kalecki and non-conventional schools of economic thought are almost completely absent from the undergraduate and graduate curricula of most economics departments. This serves as a major cognitive constraint for understanding the economic behaviour of individuals, social groups and classes, the causes of economic crisis, high unemployment, poverty, etc., and for formulating effective economic policies to address them.

The content of the curriculum of the MSc in Political Economy aims exclusively to remedy the aforementioned inadequacy of conventional programmes. Within the tradition of Political Economy, its main aim is to provide a comprehensive knowledge of alternative, non-conventional approaches to the modus operandi and pathologies of modern capitalist economies. Methodological pluralism and pragmatism are the distinctive strengths of this programme, which aspires, also through the teaching of modern quantitative tools, to provide the necessary training for all those who value economics as the cornerstone of the social sciences.