Předmět Philosophy, Economics and Politics: Current Debates (JPM610)

Na serveru studentino.cz naleznete nejrůznější studijní materiály: zápisky z přednášek nebo cvičení, vzorové testy, seminární práce, domácí úkoly a další z předmětu JPM610 - Philosophy, Economics and Politics: Current Debates, Fakulta sociálních věd, Univerzita Karlova v Praze (UK).

Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Sylabus

Instructors and moderators of debates:  Tomáš Sedláček (TS), Vladimír Benáček (VB), Michal Paulus (MP).Topics (updated 14 February, 2015):1.    [17.02.2015] Capitalism I - evolutionary/descriptive aspects. VB·       Creative, redistributive and destructive motivation in social systems·       The role of capital and labor·       Entrepreneurial vs crony capitalismLiterature:Baumol, W. J. (2008). Entrepreneurs, Inventors and the Growth of the Economy. Princeton Univ.Benáček, V. (2008). The Rise of Grand Entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and Their Contest for Capitalism. Czech Sociological Review, 42 (6), 1151-11702.    [24.02.2015] Capitalism II - The loop of cycle and contemporary capitalism. VB·         The theory of cycles (crises)·         Eternal recurrence and antagonism in social systems (state vs markets, L vs K, prosperity and recession, equilibrium vs transition, cooperation vs competition, socialism vs capitalism)·         What can be predicted and what can be learned?Literature:Articles by and on T. Picketty and on his book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"Baumol, W. J., Litan, R. E. & Schramm, C. J. (2007). Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. New Haven: Yale University PressTeulings C. and Baldwin R.: Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes and Cures. London, CEPR, 2014Readings on the Greek crisis in the Eurozone.3.    [03.03.2015] Economics - normative or positive? Or both?  MP·         What is the role and position of economics, where is it crossing lines and where it should be more focused?Literature:Friedman, Milton. The methodology of positive economics. In: Friedman, M. Essays in positive economics, Chicago Press, 1953.Hands, D. Wade. The positive-normative dichotomy and economics. In: Mäki, U., Gabbay, M., Thagard, P. and Woods, J. Philosophy of economics. North Holland, 2012.Davis, J. B. Economists' Odd Stand on the Positive-Normative Distinction: A Behavioral Economics View. Marquette University Working Paper (March 2013).4.   [10.03.2015] Capitalism III - (normative aspects).  TS·         Alternative models (Christian Felber, David Graeber)·         Critique of capitalism (Slavoj Zizek)·         Capitalism as an ideology/religion (Deirdre McCloskey, Robert Nelson, Tomas Sedlacek)Core Literature:McCloskey, Deirdre N. The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin, 1985. Nelson, Robert H. Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and beyond. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001. Sedláček, Tomáš, David Graeber, and Roman Chlupatý. (R)evoluční Ekonomie O Systému a Lidech: Rozhovor S Romanem Chlupatým. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Others resources:Felber, Christian. Die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie: Das Wirtschaftsmodell Der Zukunft. Wien: Deuticke, 2010.McCloskey, Deirdre N. If You're so Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1990.McCloskey, Deirdre N. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2010.Žižek, Slavoj. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. London: Verso, 2009.Web: video BOOKTalks - Economics as Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_-EMNXoV8Y5.   [17.03.2015]  Euro.  MP·         Past issues (ideas, expectations and errors)·         Pros and cons of a common currency·         Sovereign debt crisis in EMU; Failing stability mechanism·         Present disputes and debates about policiesLiterature:Selected articles by C. Wyplosz, B. Eichengreen, U. Panizza, D. Gros, J. Winiecki, etc. Other sources: to be updated 6.   [24.03.2015]  Economic growth. TS·           Pros and cons·           What we are bringing on the altar of economic prosperity.·           Discussion of currently new books of Tomas SedlacekLiterature:We will discuss books that are in progress and are being currently written, which gives you unique opportunity to enrich the final format of book through your active discussion.Case study (TBA)Jackson, Tim. Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London: Earthscan, 2009.   7.  [31.03.2015] [07.04.2015] Financial crisis and Minsky´s hypothesis: 5 minutes fame of heterodox schools?.  MPLiterature:Minsky, Hyman. The Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Restatement. Hyman P. Minsky Archive, Paper 180, 1978Taibbi, M. (2009, March 22). The Big Takeover: How Wall Street Insiders are Using the Bailout to Stage a Revolution. Rolling Stone .(http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-is-using-the-bailout-to-stage-a-revolution-20090402?page=2)Sakiko Fukuda-Parr , James Heintz & Stephanie Seguino (2013) Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics, Feminist Economics, 19(3), 4-31,Zeleny, M. (2012). Crisis and transformation: On the corso and ricorso of human systems. Human Systems Management, 31(1), 49-63.8.   [7.04.2015] How much is enough? Consumerism/hedonism vs. ascetism   /abstinence?  TS·         On the stationary state (R. Skidelsky, J.M.Keynes)Literature:Skidelsky, Robert, and Edward Skidelsky. How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life. New York: Other, 2012.  Keynes, John Maynard. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, 1991.  Sedláček, Tomáš. Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.  9.   [14.04.2015]  "Nobel prize" winners for Economics (2007 - 2013): Story of       the efficient markets. MP ·         Giving the students idea who are the awarded and what ideas have been perceived by the world economic community as "especially useful". Illustration: the ups and downs in the efficient market hypothesis.·         Students will choose 3 laureates and discuss their merits in the class. The importance of the award, its meaning, symbols, ideology, pragmatic vs scientific importance, etc.Sources: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/index.htmlOther sources: to be updated 10.   [21.04.2015]  New Development Economics. VB·         Strategies of development·         Why the central command economies failed·         Dynamics in tradables vs non-tradables·         The rise of BRICs·         Lessons from transition and crises       Literature:Winiecki, J.: Developmental Strategies and Structural Change: Over the Past Century. Budapest, CEU Press, 2014Benáček V: Model of comparative advantage with infinite number of productsArticles on "New protectionism" (t.b.a.)11.  [28.04.2015]   Assumption of Perfection of Markets - under inspection.  TS·         Dan Ariely - experiments connected to money, Laurie Santos - A monkey economy as irrational as ours.Literature:Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2008.  Web: Ted Talks - Laurie Santos - A monkey economy as irrational as ours -  https://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos#Alternatie Topic: MONEY - DEBT - GIFT. TS (t.b.d.)Felber, Christian. Geld Die Neuen Spielregeln. Deuticke: n.p., 2014.  Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2011.  Jan Sokol. Co Jsou Pení­ze? N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2014.Jan Sokol. Money and the Sacred. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2014. 12.  [05.05.2015] Politics of trade embargoes.  VB·         Principles of discrimination by embargo·         Political vs economic failures of embargo /sanctions·         Historical cases and their assessmentLiterature:Pugel, T.: International Economics. Boston, McGraw Hill, 2012Articles on the recent US and EU sanctions (t.b.a). 13. [12.05.2015] Student presentations of final individual essays.  TS, MP, VBOTHER SOURCES:Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York, NY:       HarperCollins, 2008.  Graeber, David. The 99%. London: Allen Lane, 2012.  Graeber, David. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave, 2001.  Graeber, David. Direct Action: An Ethnography. Edinburgh: AK, 2009.  Graeber, David. The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2013.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. The Secret Sins of Economics. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2002.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. The Vices of Economists, the Virtues of the Bourgeoisie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 1996.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. Econometric History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1987.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. How to Be Human - Though an Economist. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 2000.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.  McCloskey, Deirdre N. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2006.  Sedláček, Tomáš. Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.  Sokol, Jan. Moc, Peníze a Právo: Esej o společnosti a jejích institucích. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a Nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2007.  Žižek, Slavoj. The Indivisible Remainder. London: Verso, 2007.  Žižek, Slavoj, and Boris Gunjević. God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse. New York: Seven Stories, 2012.  

Garant

PhDr. Tomáš Sedláčekdoc. Ing. Vladimír Benáček, CSc.