Part I: Introduction to Political Economy
“THE FACTS” [22 and 24 August]
Updates to the Field Guide
Sarah Anderson et al., The Field Guide to the Global Economy, 2d ed. (New York: New Press, 2005)
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS [29 August]
WRITING POLITICAL ECONOMY [31 August]
PART II: Theories of Political Economy
MARXIAN [5, 7, 12, and 14 September]
>Hegel--from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
>Feuerbach--from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
>Utopian Socialism
>Various links to Classical Political Economy
>Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking"
>Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "The Ends of the Body: Commodity Fetishism and the Global Traffic in Organs"
S. Resnick and R. Wolff, “Marxian Theory,” in Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical, 125-238 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
POLITICAL ECONOMY IN FILM [19 and 21 September]
Mike Judge, Office Space (1999)
CLASSICAL [26 and 28 September]
P. Lichtenstein, “Post-Keynesian Theories of Value and Price,” in An Introduction to Post-Keynesian and Marxian Theories of Value and Price, 89-148 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1983)
POST-KEYNESIAN [3 and 5 October]
J. E. King, “Labor and Unemployment,” in A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, ed. R. P. F. Holt and S. Pressman, 65-78 (New York: Routledge, 2001)
P. Kenway, “Marx, Keynes, and the Possibility of Crisis,” in Keynes’s Economics and the Theory of Value and Distribution, ed. J. Eatwell and M. Milgate, 149-66 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983)
RADICAL [10 and 12 October]
D. M. Gordon et al., “Power, Accumulation, and Crisis: The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation,” in The Imperiled Economy, ed. R. Cherry et al., 43-57 (New York: Union of Radical Political Economics, 1987)
M. H. Wolfson, “Neoliberalism and the Social Structure of Accumulation,” Review of Radical Political Economics 35 (2003): 255-262
INSTITUTIONAL [24 October]
C. K. Wilber and R. S. Harrison, “The Methodological Basis of Institutional Economics: Pattern Model, Storytelling, and Holism,” Journal of Economic Issues 12 (March 1978): 61-89
H.-J. Chang and P. Evans, “The Role of Institutions in Economic Change,” in Reimagining Growth: Towards a Renewal of Development Theory, ed. S. De Paula and G. Dymski, 99-140 (New York: Zed Books, 2005)
RESEARCHING POLITICAL ECONOMY [26 October]
AUSTRIAN [31 October and 2 November]
I. M. Kirzner, “The Driving Force of the Market: The Idea of ‘Competition’ in Contemporary Economic Theory and in the Austrian Theory of the Market Process,” in Why Economists Disagree: An Introduction to Alternative Schools of Thought, ed. D. L. Prychitko, 37-52 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998)
L. M. Lachmann, “From Mises to Shackle: An Essay on Austrian Economics and the Kaleidic Society,” in Why Economists Disagree: An Introduction to Alternative Schools of Thought, ed. D. L. Prychitko, 53-64 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998)
FEMINIST [7 and 9 November]
D. Strassman, “Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics,” in Beyond Economic Man, 54-68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
L. Saunders and W. Darity Jr., “Feminist Theory and Racial Economic Inequality,” in Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man, ed. M. A. Ferber and J. A. Nelson, 101-14 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
POSTCOLONIAL 14 and 16 November
A. Callari, “Economics and the Postcolonial Other,” in Postcolonialism Meets Economics, ed. E. O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela, 113-29 (New York: Routledge, 2004)
C. Danby, “Contested States, Transnational Subjects: Toward a Post Keynesianism Without Modernity,” in Postcolonialism Meets Economics, ed. E. O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela, 253-70 (New York: Routledge, 2004)
PART III: ISSUES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
JUSTICE
[21 November]
> abstract and reading list due
GLOBALIZATION [28 November]
INCOME DISTRIBUTION & POLITICS [30 November]
K. Phillips, “Afterword,” in Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, 405-22 (New York: Broadway Books, 2002)
ALTERNATIVES [5 December]
P. van Parijs, “Basic Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the Twenty-first Century,” Politics and Society 32 (March 2004): 7-39
J. K. Gibson-Graham, “The Community Economy,” in A Postcapitalist Politics, 79-99 (Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press, 2006)