教學大綱 Syllabus

科目名稱：政治經濟學

Course Name: Political Economy
  • 學年學期：110-1 Fall Semester, 2021
  • 科目代碼：926872001 Course No.926872001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

30

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：亞太碩一、亞太碩二 Course Department:International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies/M/1&2
  • 授課老師：蔡中民 Instructor:
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：二D56 Session: tue13-16

課程簡介Course Description

This course provides a broad survey of some of the major debates in comparative political economy today, focusing especially on the creation, evolution and reform of market institutions.  We begin by reading some of the classic works in political economy, including those of Smith, Marx, List, and Polanyi.  We review some of the most influential works from four disciplines: History, Sociology, Economics, and Political Science.  We then proceed with a selective survey of literature on the political economy of developed countries, newly industrialized economies, developing countries, and the post-Communist economies. The class concludes with the discussion on the post-globalization era and rise of state capitalism.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    This is a reading and discussion seminar. Our class sessions will focus on discussions of course readings. All members of the seminar should complete the assigned readings prior to the seminar meeting and come prepared to discuss the readings - their relationship to one another, and their links to earlier readings and seminar discussions. Class discussion aims to achieve two goals: 1) identifying the key aspects of each work (i.e., main puzzle, major arguments, methodology, empirical evidence, etc.); 2) relating the different works to each other (i.e., comparison of focus or methodology, relevance to the development of the discipline, etc.). Every student has to make SOME substantive comments in each class session; I will call on students in case that should be required.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    Week 1         Overview and Introduction

    • Making College Relevant,” New York Times, December 29, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03careerism-t.html
    • James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine, Theories of Political Economy (Cambridge, MA.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 1-32.
    • Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel, eds., The Political Economy Reader: Market as Institutions (New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 1-18.

    Week 2          Adam Smith

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 21-40 (Smith).

    Week 3        Karl Marx

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 41-62 (Marx, the Communist Manifesto, also available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

    Week 4                List and Polanyi

    •    Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 63-86 (List), 121-151      (Polanyi).

    Week 5         Comparison of Smith, Marx, and Polanyi

    •     Selective chapters from the Wealth of Nations, Capital, and The Great Transformation, to be assigned.

    Week 6           Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman

    • Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, and Janet Knoedler, Introduction to Political Economy (Boston: Dollars and Sense, 2010), pp. 114-125 (Keynes).
    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 91-105 (Hayek), 107-116 (Friedman).

    Week 7           Industrial Revolution

    • Eric J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (New York: Penguin Books, 1968), pp. 13-55.

    Week 8         Midterm Report

    Week 9                The New Institutional Economics

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 175-183 (North), 185-194 (Williamson).
    • Ronald Coase, “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica 4:16 (November 1937), pp. 386-405.

    Week 10             Economic Sociology

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 153-170 (Fligstein).
    • Mark Granovetter, “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 91:3 (November 1985), pp. 481-510.

    Week 11        Late Development and Developmental State

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 199-210 (Rostow), 211-228 (Gerschenkron), 259-287 (Johnson).  

    Week 12             Dependency Theory and Development Predicaments

    • Peter Evans, Dependent Development (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1979), pp. 14-34.  
    • Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite, eds., The Globalization and Development Reader(Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp.76-84.
    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 475-482 (de Soto).

    Week 13             Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 333-339 (Seldon), 341-354 (Vogel).
    • Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale (Chicago, IL.: The University of Chicago Press 1996), pp. 225-39, 275-80.

    Week 14             The Varieties of Capitalism (VOC) as a New Agenda

    • Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 289-328 (Hall & Soskice).
    • William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 60-92.

    Week 15               The debates of VOC

    • Bob Hancké, ed., Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), chapter 9.

    Week 16            The Rise of State Capitalism

    • Ian Bremmer, “The Return of State Capitalism,” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 50: 3 (2008), pp. 55-64.

    Week 17          Class Presentation

    Week 18         Class Presentation

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    60%

    講述 Lecture

    30%

    討論 Discussion

    0%

    小組活動 Group activity

    10%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. class participation（20%）
    2. moodle assignments（20%）
    3. short essay（25％）。
    4. term paper（35％）。

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel, eds., The Political Economy Reader: Market as Institutions (New York: Routledge, 2008).

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