Week |
Topics |
Study Materials |
1 |
Pre-Classical Economic Analysis I: From Aristoteles to Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics |
Screpanti and Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 1.1. |
2 |
Pre-Classical Economic Analysis II: Mercantilists |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Chs. 1.2 and 1.3. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 2.2. |
3 |
Pre-Classical Economic Analysis III: Physiocrats |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 2.1. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 2.3. |
4 |
Classical Economists I: Adam Smith |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Chs. 2.2 and 2.3. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 3. |
5 |
Classical Economists II: David Ricardo |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Chs. 3.1 and 3.2. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 4. |
6 |
Classical Economists III: Karl Marx |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 4. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 5. |
7 |
Structure of the Classical Analysis, Emergence of the Neoclassical School and the Structure of the Neoclassical Analysis |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 5.1. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Chs. 6 and 7.1-3. |
8 |
MID-TERM |
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9 |
Neoclassical School I: Léon Walras (Lausanne School) |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 5.3. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 7.4-5 |
10 |
Neoclassical School II: Alfred Marshall (Cambridge School) |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 6.1-2. |
11 |
Critique of the Neoclassical Analysis I: Unemployment Equilibrium and John Maynard Keynes |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 7.2-3. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Chs. 10 and 11. |
12 |
Critique of the Neoclassical Analysis II: Capital Controversy |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 11.2.1-2. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 8. |
13 |
Modern Alternatives I: Piero Sraffa and the Revival of the Classical Political Economy |
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, Ch. 11.2.3. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing Schools of Economic Thought, Ch. 8. |
14 |
Modern Alternatives II: Evolutionary and Institutionalist Approaches |
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