Intellectual History (Economic, Social, and Political Thought)

2024/2025

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Department of Theoretical Economics

When: 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Oleg I. Ananyin, Vladimir S. Avtonomov, Alexei Gloukhov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Full 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

тест
Тесты состоят из коротких письменных эссе на заданную преподавателем тему
реферат
Домашняя письменная работа на тему, заданную преподавателем
Активность на семинарах
Оценивается участие студента в обсуждении тем семинарских занятий: владение материалом, способность четко излагать мысль, реагировать на вопросы и возражения; самостоятельность суждений; соответствие академическим нормам ведения дискуссии

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.4 * Активность на семинарах + 0.3 * реферат + 0.15 * тест + 0.15 * тест

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

Authors

GLUKHOV ALEKSEY ANATOLEVICH
Karpich Yuliya Vladimirovna
Ananin Oleg Igorevich

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