| Course description Guidelines for presentations Presentation marking grid Guidelines for research papers, Research marking grid Contact: Teachers: Alexandro Agafonow, David Rees, Amanar Akhabbar Secretary: Emilie Hergault Evaluation: 50% Class presentation; 560% Research paper |
| Lesson 1 Wednesday 18 September 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Introduction Theory, concept and history |
Preparation for Marx 1: Manifesto
of the Communist Party |
| Lesson 2 Wednesday 25 September 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Karl Marx 1/3 Marx - his life and ideas Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times. Factory scene Fritz Lang. Metropolis. Ouverture Life of Karl Marx (Daily Motion) (1h) Student presentation: Laura Beaufort. 1936. The French Popular Front (based on Politis hors-série 64. Que reste-t-il du Front Populaire ?) |
Preparation for Marx 2: The Inexorable System of Karl Marx. Chapter VI, The Wordly Philosophers, 1953 Robert Heilbroner |
| Lesson 3 Wednesday 01 February 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Karl Marx 2/3 Discussion of The Inexorable System of Karl Marx Globalisation and wealth distribution USA wealth distribution (Politizane 6m) Tax the rich - an animated fairy tale Crises of capitalism (David Harvey) Student presentation: Constanze Arming. Working conditions in the UK during the Industrial Revolution Patricia Carillo. The overthrowing of Salvador Allende |
Preparation for Marx 3: Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice Theodore H. Kohn. Pearson Longman, 2000 Ch 5. The historical structuralist perspective British Empire and the Industrial Revolution (7m) British Industrial Revolution Allende's final speech |
| Lesson 4 Wednesday 08 February 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Karl Marx 3/3 Discussion of The historical structuralist perspective Opinions - discussion Student presentations: Mathieu Couet. Successes and Failures of Communism in South and Latin America. Clement Defretin. US anti-socialist intervention (based on Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow) Karl Marx (10m) The School of Life Why Marxism cannot work (6m) Computing Forever) Cultural hegemony - (Gramsci) (10m) Ten Minute Philosophy |
Preparation for Keynes 1: Rees. The Intellectual Pragmatist |
| Lesson 5 Wednesday 21 February 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Keynes 1/1 Keynes Introduction pdf DR Masters of Money - John Maynard Keynes (BBC 60m) Student presentation: Clara Dorval. The Versailles Treaty (based on J. M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace) Jeung Ho Park. Rooseveld's New Deal. Sophie Chisholm. The Bretton Woods Conference |
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| Lesson 6 Wednesday 01 March 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow Student presentations: |
Student presentations for Alejandro Agafonow. Please contact the teacher to fix dates and subjects. Bastien Fourot, Justine Pieau, Jean-Baptiste Pique, Hugo Poinsot, Axel Racault, Adèle Segalen, Nayoon Seok, Jiye Shin, Hippolyte Olibet, Vincent Benet. |
| Lesson7 Wednesday 08 March 13h30-16h30 |
Amanar Akhabar Leontief 1/3 Student presentation: 1: “Has economics become an engineering science? A history of science perspective by Mary Morgan.” Ref: Mary Morgan, 2002. “The formation of economics: Engineering and Ideology”, LSE working papers. Online: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/pdf/WP6201.pdf Student: Pierre Groux Student presentation 2: “Forecasting the End of Humanity: the 1972 Meadows report (MIT) for the Club of Rome. Demographic and economic growth VS Environment and natural resources depletion.” Ref: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, 1972. The Limits to Growth. Online: http://collections.dartmouth.edu/teitexts/meadows/diplomatic/meadows_ltg-diplomatic.html Student: Jasmine Moodie |
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| Lesson 8 Wednesday 15 March 13h30-16h30 |
Amanar Akhabar Leontief 2/3 -Presentation 3: “What is input-output analysis? On Leontief’s input-output framework for economics and for business forecasting.” REF: Wassily Leontief, “Input-Output Analysis”, Scientific American, 1965. Student: YI Yoon-Jae - Presentation 4: “Mainstream economists answering the Meadows report: Nordhaus’s 1973 “Data without measurement”.” REF: William Nordhaus, 1973, “World Dynamics: Measurement without Data”, The Economic Journal. Online: http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/worlddynamics.pdf Student: Anil Hasdemir - Presentation 5: “Assessing the Meadows report on long tem economic development and environment: sketch of the Leontief World Model for the United Nations with early results.” REF: Wassily Leontief, 1973. “Structure of the World Economy, Outline of a Simple Input-Output Formulation.” Nobel Memorial Lecture, December 11. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1973/leontief-lecture.html -Wassily Leontief, 1978. “Observations on some Worldwide Economic Issues of the Coming Years”. Challenge. Student: Alexis Hemar |
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| Lesson 9 Tuesday 21 March 13h30-16h30 |
Amanar Akhabar Leontief 3/3 - Presentation 6: “Leontief’s 1977 World Model for the UNO: scenarios for 2000 for economic development, environment and natural resource issues.” REF: Wassily Leontief, Anne P. Carter and Peter Petri, The Future of the World Economy, a UNO report. 1977 Student: Maria Gonzalez - Presentation 7: “The 1977 World model’s 2000 scenarios at 30: an assessment in retrospect (Emilio Fontela 2007).” REF: Emilio Fontela, 2007. "Leontief and the Future of the World Economy.” Economic System Journal. Online: https://www.iioa.org/conferences/13th/files/Fontela_Leontief.pdf Student: Hyokyoung Chae |
Other possible topics for written essays:
(1) Is modern international trade theory of comparative advantages false? Leontief’s paradox. (2) Would disarmament help global economic development? Scenarios and forecast from Leontief. (3) The Secular stagnation: why economic growth has been so slow since the 1980s? https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/tt20-united-states-economic-growth-gordon.pdf http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Gordon2015.pdf http://larrysummers.com/2016/02/17/the-age-of-secular-stagnation/ http://time.com/4269733/secular-stagnation-larry-summers/ |
| Lesson 10 Wednesday 29 March 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow John Rawls 1/5 Student presentation: |
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| Lesson 11 Wednesday 05 April 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow John Rawls 2/5 Student presentation: |
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| Lesson 12 Wednesday 12 April 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow John Rawls 3/5 Student presentation: |
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| Lesson 13 Wednesday 19 April 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow John Rawls 4/5 Student presentation: |
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| Lesson 14 Wednesday 26 April 13h30-16h30 |
Alejandro Agafonow John Rawls 5/5 Student presentation: |
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| Lesson 15 Wednesday 03 May 13h30-16h30 PECT 808 |
David Rees Conclusion |
Some personal ideas |
| Recommended additional reading |
Globalisation and IPE Globaloney 2.0 Michael Veseth Globalization - a short history. Jûrgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson Overthrow: Amercica's century of regime change from Hawai to Iraq. Stephen Kinzer The Poverty of Nations - a guide to the debt crisis. Altwater et al. Chomsky and Globalisation. Jeremy Fox Making globalisation work. Joseph Stiglitz Pickety, Krugman and Stiglitz. The genius of Economics. (75m) (92Y Plus) |
Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes Marx's Ghost. Midnight conversations on changing the world. Charles Derber Karl Marx. Francis Wheen Marx on Globalisation. Dave Renton Zombie Capitalism - global crisis and the relevance of Marx. Chris Harman Marx and the alternative to Capitalism. Kieran Allen An introduction to Marxist Economic Theory. Ernest Mandel Keynes - the return of the master. Robert Skidelsky The Battle of Bretton Woods. Benn Steil A brief history of neoliberalism. David Harvey |