Political Economy
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Suzanne Berger; Michael Priore - MIT
Introduction: Paradigms and Social Science
Readings
Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Kuhn, Thomas - University of Chicago Press 1996. ISBN: 9780226458083.
2. Theories of the Liberal State and Politics
Readings
Second Treatise on Civil Government (Chapters 1–5 and 7–9) - Locke, John - The Editorium (2010)
ISBN: 9781434103055.“Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Four Essays on Liberty - Berlin, Isaiah - Oxford University Press, 1990.
ISBN: 9780192810342.Federalist Paper 10 - Madison, James - Friday, November 23, 1787.
“Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch.” (pages 65–82) - Condorcet, and Keith Michael Baker - Daedalus 133, no. 3 (2004)
3. Neo-Classical Theories of the Economy
Readings
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom (pages 1–55, 108–37, and 161–90) - Friedman, Milton - University of Chicago Press, (2002)
ISBN: 9780226264219. [Preview with Google Books]The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour (Chapters 1, 8, 12, and 13) - Becker, Gary - University of Chicago Press, (1990)
Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith: Ideology and Economic Theory - Dobb, Maurice - Cambridge University Press, (1975)
ISBN: 9780521099363. [Preview on Google Books]
4. Liberal and Neo-Classical Approaches
Readings
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Chapters 1–4 ) - Olson, Mancur - Harvard University Press, (1971)
ISBN: 9780674537514Individualism and Economic Order (Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5) - Hayek, Frederich - University of Chicago Press, 1996.
ISBN: 9780226320939“Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories.” (pages 513–37) - Harsanyi, John - World Politics 21, no. 4 (1969)
5. The Keynesian Revolution
Readings
“The Great Slump of 1930,” “Economy,” and “The End of Laissez-Faire.” In Essays in Persuasion - Keynes, John Maynard CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, (2009)
ISBN: 9781441492265The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - Harcourt, Brace, and World, (1965)
ISBN: 9780156347112
6. Marxist Politics
Readings
“The Manifesto of the Communist Party.” (pages 469–500) - In The Marx-Engels Reader - Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. W.W. Norton, (1978)
ISBN: 9780393090406Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (pages 3–6) - In The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. W.W. Norton, (1978)
ISBN: 9780393090406The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Read in entirety, NOT in Tucker version) - Marx, Karl. Translated by D. D. L. CreateSpaceIndependent Publishing Platform, (2013)
ISBN: 9781461072270From the Prison Notebooks (pages 1–276) - Gramsci, Antonio. Selections Edited by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. International Publishers Company, (1971)
ISBN: 9780717803972.
Readings
“Capital.” (pages 294–465) - Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, In The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. Norton, (1978)
ISBN: 9780393090406.The Political Economy of Marx (pages 1–180) - Howard, M. C., and J. E. King. New York University Press, (1988)
ISBN: 9780814734537. [Preview with Google Books]Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value (Introduction and chapters 1, 8, and 18) - Rubin, I. I. - Black Rose Books, (1973)
ISBN: 9780919618183.
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Sociological Theories of Capitalism (I)
Weber, Max. Introduction and chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199747252.
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Sociological Theories of Capitalism (II)
Polanyi, Karl. Chapters 3–14 in The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Beacon Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780807056431. Except chapters go from 1–14.
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Sociological Theories of Capitalism (III)
Boltanski, Luc, and Eve Chiapello. “Conclusion: The Force of Critique.” In The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso, 2007, pp. 485–524. ISBN: 9781844671656.
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Crisis and Capitalism
Review relevant passages from Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Capital. Review Keynes.
Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008, pp. 81–163. ISBN: 9780061561610.
MacKenzie, Donald. Chapters 1 and 9 in An Engine Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262633673. [Preview with Google Books]
Akerlof, George A., and Robert J. Shiller. Preface and chapters 1–4, 6, and 7 in Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780691145921.
Bernanke, Ben. “Reflections on a Year in Crisis.” Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Jackson Hole Speech. August 21, 2009.
Rajan, Raghuram. “Let Them Eat Credit.” In Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780691152639.
Recommended
Lo, Andrew W. “Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One Book Review.” Journal of Economic Literature 50, no. 1 (2012): 151–78.
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Institutionalism
North, Douglas. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521397346. [Preview with Google Books]
Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1–68. ISBN: 9780199247752.
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