Laurence Wilse-Samson Research Teaching Textbook experiments Tools CV

Teaching

Current and recent courses, all at the master's level. My NYU Wagner courses are listed on my Wagner faculty page.

Public Economics
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service · spring
Public finance theory, causal evidence, and the actual rules of US programs. The text is the open Public Economics draft.
Labor Policy: The Future of Work
NYU Wagner · fall 2026
How institutions should respond to AI-driven disruption of labor markets.
Understanding Emerging Technologies
Columbia School of International and Public Affairs · fall 2025
AI governance, export controls, data privacy, platform economics, and the politics of emerging-technology regulation.
Research Methods in Competition Policy and Economic Regulation
Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg · spring 2026
A practitioner course for competition authorities and consultants; I also supervise master's dissertations there. The text is the open Antitrust Research Methods draft.

I have also taught the Economics of International Development and Urban Economics at NYU Wagner, and International Finance and Game Theory at the University of Cape Town. Several courses draw on the open textbooks listed under Textbooks.