Maik Huettinger
Thursday 16 January
08h30-10h30
Introduction
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 16 January
10h30-12h30
Adam Smith
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 23 January
08h30-10h30
Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 23 January
10h30-12h30
Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill
David Rees
Thursday 30 January
08h30-10h30
Distance
Karl Marx part 1
Introduction
Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times. Factory scene
Fritz Lang. Metropolis. Ouverture
Film questions
The Life of Karl Marx (BBC). 59m
How capitalism is killing itself. 35m. The Empire Files (Dr Richard Wolff)
Theory, concept and history (David Rees)
Marx and Globalisation (David Rees)
Karl Marx et Frederic Engels, 1848
Presentation:
How has the exploitation of labour evolved from the Industrial Revolution to 2025?
Saad Ahmed
Presentation:
How did the Enclosures Acts transform cottage industries and contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
David Rees
Thursday 30 January
10h30-12h30
Distance
Karl Marx part 2
Political Theory. Karl Marx. 9m. The School of Life.
Marx - introduction. 5m. The curious classroom
25 October 1917. The Russian Revolution (Epic History) (14m)
Globalisation and wealth distribution (David Rees)
Crises of capitalism (David Harvey) (11m)
Marx - introduction. 5m. The curious classroom
Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky) (2h46m)
Everything is a Rich Man's Trick (Top Documentary Films. 3h28m)
Presentation:
What were the historical efforts
and challenges in creating Marxists states or regimes?
Anaëlle Pivet
Presentation:
How does Marx's concept of the alienation of labour apply to the modern workforce?
Anna Smith
Marx Summary
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 6 February
08h30-10h30
William Jevons, Carl Menger and Leon Walrus
David Rees
Thursday 6 February
10h30-12h30
Alfred Marshall, Knut Wicksell and Irving Fischer
Elasticity. pdf. DR
The Cambridge Economists pdf. DR
Presentation:
What is the significance of elasticity in economic theory and practice?
Louis Matha
Presentation:
How do the marginal propensities to consume and save influence the effects of government policy?
Nouhaila Benbalyout
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 13 February
08h30-10h30
Thornstein Veblen, Wesley Mitchell and John Commons
Maik Huettinger
Thursday 13 February
10h30-12h30
Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter
David Rees
Thursday 20 February
08h30-10h30
John Maynard Keynes part 1
Masters of Money - John Maynard Keynes (BBC 60m)
Rees. A Keynesian New World Order for the 21st Century
Keynesian New World Order. References
Available in 'Economic Theory and Globalization'
Lesson 8 Quiz
Presentation:
Was the 1932 US 'New Deal' an application of Keynesian economics?
Antoine Rouet
Presentation:
How did Keynesian politics shape the global economy from the mid 1940s to the mid 1970s?
Saskia Marouteix
Keynesian Economics (5m)
Keynes on the Bancor and ICU pdf DR
David Rees
Thursday 20 February
10h30-12h30
John Maynard Keynes part 2
Presentation:
What was the basis of Keynes's criticism of the Versailles Treaty?
Raphaël Dupont
Presentation:
What competing ideas emerged at the Brettton Woods Conference between John Maynard Keynes and Harold Dexter White?
Reuben Baiju
Treaty of
Versailles (video 3m)
Economic
Consequences of the Peace (book)
Bretton Woods (90s)
Maik Huettinger
Friday 21 February
08h30-10h30
Joan Robinson, Paul Sweezy, Karl Myrdal, John Galbraith and Ronald Coase
David Rees
Friday 21 February
10h30-12h30
Milton Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz
Key lessons from 'The Chicago Boys' Chile experiment. Stigler Centre. (54m)
Le Duel de Critiques. Milton Friedman vs Pierre Larrouturou et Dominique Méda. BFM Business (in French) (13m)
Naomi Klein critique of Friedman. C-Span. (5m)
Is Progressive Capitalism an Oxymoron? Interview with Joseph Stiglitz. TVO Today. (20m)
Reading
Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine.
Robert Reich. Beyond Outrage.
Joseph Stiglitz. Making Globalisatin Work.
Joseph Stiglitz. The Price of Inequality.
Joseph Stiglitz. People Power and Profits
Has the World Bank contributed to increasing inequality worldwide?
Sacha Guiguet
Presentation:
How did Friedman and the Chicago Boys influence Chile's economic policies?
Nathan Pautonnier
History of Economic Theory. David Rees
Joseph Stiglitz: Man who ran World Bank calls for bankers to face the music. Independent.
Joseph Stiglitz Books. Amazon
David Rees
Friday 21 February
13h30-15h30
Personal political ideology. Right, Left or Lost?
Opinions - discussion
Economic Theory - concluding remarks.
Some personal ideas
Left or Right?
Socialist or Capitalist?
Pre-questionnaire ideology test
Personal Political Position
Opinions
Keynes Quiz
Course evaluation