20711627 - ECONOMIC POLICY

Political economy is taught as part of the educational activities of the Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy Sciences. The course aims to provide a critical understanding of the main economic issues and problems in their historical development, theoretical and empirical
dimensions, and connections with other disciplines and fields of research (history, politics, sociology).
Within the framework of this course, teaching aims to provide.
1) a thorough knowledge of the principal authors, works, and orientations of the political economy throughout history;
2) the ability to contextualize, analyze, and critically interpret approaches of different nature (capitalist, liberal, socialist, communist);
3) the lexical and conceptual tools necessary for the study of political economy and essential for acquiring good expository skills in written and oral form
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Mutuazione: 20711627 POLITICA ECONOMICA in Scienze della Comunicazione L-20 R CONTE GIAMPAOLO

Programme

The course aims to trace the stages of the genesis and evolution of economic policy from the English Industrial Revolution to the 2008 crisis, focusing on the formation processes of the major capitalist systems in Europe and beyond.

The Industrial Revolution
Economic thought from Smith to Friedman
Hegemony and crisis of the capitalist system
Economic policy and the social question.

Core Documentation

Attending students:

Roncaglia A., A Brief History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017

plus a further book:

Rodrik D., The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021

Non-attending students

Q. Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2020

Attendance

frontal lecture

Type of evaluation

oral or written exam