Master
2023/2024
Intellectual History (Economic, Social, and Political Thought)
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Politics. Economics. Philosophy)
Area of studies:
Political Science
Delivered by:
Department of Theoretical Economics
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Политика. Экономика. Философия
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is intended to help a student to enter the universe of intellectual culture underlying contemporary social sciences, to perceive the origin and logic of basic ideas governing political movements and economic change. It is aiming at strengthening students’ intellectual and historical outlook, to cultivate skills of professional and public discussion. Pre-requisites: basics of philosophy; basics of the history of social thought.
Learning Objectives
- Provide knowledge of basic ideas and concepts constitutive for social thought through its history: individuality and society, sovereign and state, wealth and war, freedom and history
- Make students aware of philosophical and ethical assumptions, as well as inter-disciplinary links, of political and economic theories
- Provides skills of shaping one’s literary and intellectual background, its updating according to current research tasks
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Знает общие корни и характер взаимосвязи экономических и политических идей, понимает значение и логику развития базовых тем экономической науки, таких как экономический рост и эффективное использование ресурсов, возможности и границы государственного регулирования хозяйственных процессов, способен выявлять этические и идеологические предпосылки споров и конфликтов по социально-экономическим вопросам.
- Знает основные вехи развития политической мысли и ее ведущих представителей – Макиавелли, Гоббса, Руссо, Маркса, Берлина, Фуко; понимает истоки и логику общественных дискуссий о соотношении индивида и общества, власти и государстве, свободе и исторической необходимости
- Понимает значение междисциплинарных взаимосвязей между различными отраслями обществознания
- Различает основные подходы к истории идей, включая интеллектуальную историю, влияние на ее возникновение процессов дифференциации дисциплинарного знания
Course Contents
- Intellectual History as a Discipline
- Discovering political domain
- Discovering economic domain
Assessment Elements
- ActivityStudent's activity at classes: quality and regularity of comments, questions, presentations, etc.
- Activity
- Test
- Test
- Homework
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.2 * Activity + 0.2 * Activity + 0.3 * Homework + 0.15 * Test + 0.15 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Adam Smith. (2017). The Wealth of Nations. [N.p.]: Dancing Unicorn Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1468236
- Desmedt, L. (2005). Money in the “Body Politick”: The Analysis of Trade and Circulation in the Writings of Seventeenth-Century Political Arithmeticians. History of Political Economy, 37(1), 79–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-1-79
- Foucault, M., Burchell, G., Senellart, M., Ewald, F., & Fontana, A. (2009). Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=379853
- Hausman, D. M. (2008). The Philosophy of Economics. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.cup.cbooks.9780521709842
- Hobbes, T. (2009). Leviathan : The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. [Auckland, N.Z.]: The Floating Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=314027
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (2013). The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy. [N.p.]: Digireads.com Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1537646
- Machiavelli, N. (2014). The Prince. Newburyport: Open Road Media. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=820888
- Nichols, R., & Baum, B. D. (2013). Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom : ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=547154
- Olson, M. (1993). Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development. American Political Science Review, (03), 567. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v87y1993i03p567.576.10
- Olson, M. (2010). Dictatorship, Democracy and Development. Economic Policy, 167. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.rnp.ecopol.1019
- R. Skidelsky. (2006). Hayek versus Keynes: The Road to Reconciliation. VOPROSY ECONOMIKI. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.nos.voprec.2006.06.4
- Rogers, M. (2004). The Origins of Totalitarianism (Book). Library Journal, 129(6), 129. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=12683846
- The passions and the interests : political arguments for capitalism before its triumph, Hirschman, A. O., 1997
- Whatmore, R., & Young, B. W. (2016). A Companion to Intellectual History. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1089075
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A companion to contemporary political philosophy. Vol.1: ., , 2007
- Alfred Marshall. (2005). From Principles of Economics. World Scientific Book Chapters, 195. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812701275_0021
- Antoin E. Murphy. (2016). Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734). Chapters. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.h.elg.eechap.13936.5
- Chomsky, N., & Foucault, M. (2006). The Chomsky-Foucault Debate : On Human Nature. New York: The New Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=516587
- Durlauf, S. N., & Blume, L. E. (2008). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Vol. Second edition). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1203500
- Hirschman, A. O. (2013). The Essential Hirschman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=610643
- Kennedy, G. (2009). Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth. Econ Journal Watch, 6(2), 239–263. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=41530108
- Qvortrup, M. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt. Political Studies Review, 16(1), NP19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917723877
- Richard Cantillon's Essay on the nature of trade in general : a variorum edition, Cantillon, R., 2015
- Samuels, W. J., Biddle, J., & Davis, J. B. (2003). A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=108710
- Skinner, Q. (2012). Liberty Before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=909523
- The theory of economic development : an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle, Schumpeter, J. A., 2012