Contact: Teachers: Maik Huettinger, David Rees. Secretary: Lylia Delio Evaluation: Oral presentation 25%. Course participation (MCQs) 25%. Exam 50%. |
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1 Maik Huettinger Thursday 29 February 08h30-10h30 Introduction |
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2 Maik Huettinger Thursday 29 February 10h30-12h30 Adam Smith |
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3 Maik Huettinger Thursday 07 March 08h30-10h30 Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo |
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4 Maik Huettinger Thursday 07 March 10h30-12h30 Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill |
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Lesson 5 David Rees Thursday 14 March 08h30-10h30 Karl Marx part 1 |
Introduction Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times. Factory scene Fritz Lang. Metropolis. Ouverture 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) |
Manifesto
of the Communist Party Karl Marx et Frederic Engels, 1848 Presentation: 'Marx and Conflict - what would Marx say about the Current Agricultural Protests in Europe?' Alexandre Sirot. Presentation: From the Commons to the Enclosures Act. Chiyu Xiong. |
Lesson 6 David Rees Thursday 14 March 10h30-12h30 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: Cultural Hegemony. The Power of the Media. Presentation: 'Marx and Alienation. Does it still exist in 2024?'. Manon Broqua Marx Summary |
Lesson 7 Maik Huettinger Thursday 21 March 08h30-10h30 William Jevons, Carl Menger and Leon Walrus |
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Lesson 8 David Rees Thursday 21 March 10h30-12h30 Alfred Marshall, Knut Wicksell and Irving Fischer |
Elasticity. pdf. DR The Cambridge Economists pdf. DR |
Presentation: 'How would Pigou React to the Current Global Warming Crisis?'. Thomas Roux. Presentation: 'A. C. Pigou and the Taxation of Negative Externalities'. Arjun Athipott. Presentation: Alfred Marshall. The concept of elasticity. David Rees |
Lesson 9 Maik Huettinger Thursday 28 March 08h30-10h30 Thornstein Veblen, Wesley Mitchell and John Commons |
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Lesson 10 Maik Huettinger Thursday 28 March 10h30-12h30 Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter |
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Lesson 11 David Rees Thursday 04 April 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' |
Presentation: 'What would John Maynard Keynes have to say about Trade, Politics and the Global Economy in 2024?'. Ninon Barreira. Presentation: Keynes: the propensity to consume, the propensity to save and the multiplier effect. Anna-Carla Barou. Keynes and The New Deal (10m) Keynesian Economics (5m) Keynes on the Bancor and ICU pdf DR |
Lesson 12 David Rees Thursday 04 April 10h30-12h30 John Maynard Keynes part 2 |
Presentation: 'The Bretton Woods Conference: a Battle of Ideas between John Maynard Keynes and Harold Dexter White'. Emilien Naveau. Presentation: Keynes and the Versailles Treaty. Candice Gutman. Treaty of
Versailles (video 3m) |
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Lesson 13 Maik Huettinger Friday 12 April 08h30-10h30 Joan Robinson, Paul Sweezy, Karl Myrdal, John Galbraith and Ronald Coase |
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Lesson 14 David Rees Friday 12 April 10h30-12h30 Milton Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz |
Milton Friedman and Chile - the Power of Choice. Free to Choose. (9m) 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 |
MPS/MPC History of Economic Theory. David Rees Stiglitz leaves World Bank. N. Y. Times Joseph Stiglitz: Man who ran World Bank calls for bankers to face the music. Independent. Joseph Stiglitz Books. Amazon |
Lesson 15 David Rees Friday 12 April 13h30-15h30 Personal political ideology. Right, Left or Lost? |
Personal Political Ideology Opinions - discussion Exam 25m (on Moodle - last lesson) Economic Theory - concluding remarks. Some personal ideas |
"Is the use of the word 'extreme', as in 'extreme
right' and 'extreme left' appropriate?" Course evaluation |
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