Sophomore Economics Tutorial: Topics in the History of Economic Thought
CSS 220
Fall 2014
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01
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This tutorial treats the development of economics from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes through an organizing framework that distinguishes between social outcomes that are consciously designed and those that come about solely as the unplanned results of human interaction. In this way, the insights of successive analytical systems--classical and neoclassical economics, Marxism and its successors, and Keynesianism--about industrialization are considered and compared. Major thinkers we will discuss include Smith, Locke, Rawls, Buchanan, Hayek, F. W. Taylor, Sombart, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Bernstein, and Keynes. The tutorial's aim is to provide a fuller context for what you learn in politics, history, and social theory and to deepen your intuitive understanding of contemporary economic theory. |
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| Credit: 1.5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ECON |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - 1st Trimester |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
The following books (all in paperback) are available at Broad Street Books:
1.) R. Heilbroner, Marxism: For and Against. W. W. Norton: 1980.
2.) V. I. Lenin, State and Revolution (1917). International Publishers: 1932.
3.) K. Marx and F. Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848). International Publishers: 1948.
4.) R. J. Overy, The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938. Cambridge University
Press: 2nd edition, 1996.
5.) C. J. Schmitz, The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western
Europe, 1850-1939. London: Macmillan.
6.) F. W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911). Dover Publications: 1998.
The books by Lenin, Marx and Engels, and Taylor have been published in many editions by many publishers; any edition of any of these works is suitable for the Tutorial. All of the remaining readings for the Tutorial will be available online or distributed in class, and one copy of each will be placed on reserve in the CSS Library, from which they may not be removed.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly papers due at the beginning of each class meeting |
| Instructor(s): Adelstein,Richard P. Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC413; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 10 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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