History of Economic Thought

INDIVIDUAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Unit Title
History of Economic Thought
Course Unit Code
Type of Course Unit
Optional
Level of Course Unit
Second Cycle ( Doctorate - Economics)
Number of ECTS Credits
Allocated
8
Theoretical (hour/week)
3
Practice (hour/week)
-
Laboratory (hour/week)
-
Year of Study
1st year
Semester when the course
unit is delivered
Spring/2nd semester
Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alp Yücel Kaya
Mode of Delivery
Face to face
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Prerequisities and corequisities
None
Recommended Optional
Programme Components
None
Work Placement(s)
None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to earn students a theoretical and conceptual base on
the development of economic theory in the light of the questions regarding the
economic and social developments that were lived through between the 18th
and 20th centuries.
Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Weekly Detailed Course
Contents
1- The ability to search on the economic theories and concepts.
2- The ability to examine the processes of economic and social
transformation.
3- The ability to analyse the economic discussions on the economic and
social transformation.
4- The ability to analyse the mutual interaction between the economic
change and the social, political, cultural and intellectual change.
5- The ability to synthesize and apprehend the current economic
discussions.
The course deals with the history of economics and economic thought in the
light of the questions regarding the economic and social developments that were
lived through between the 18th and 20th centuries. The focus will be on the
mutual interaction of the economic and social change on the one hand and the
economic theory on the other. Analysis of the important economists and schools
of thought will be made in terms of economic theories and social changes
within a historical perspective.
Week
1
2
3
TOPIC
Theoretical Course Content
Application
Economic theories and social transformations
Reading
Liberal and neoliberal market societies
Research
Homework
Economic analysis in the 18th centuries: the
Research
Physiocrats
4
The economy of laissez-faire : Adam Smith as a system Research
founder
Homework
5
Politics and analysis of liberal economics in the 19th
century: David Ricardo
Research
Homework
6
Politics and analysis of liberal economics in the 19th
century: Jean-Baptiste Say
Research
Homework
7
Social and economic change in the 19th century: John
Stuart Mill
Research
Homework
Mid-term
Analysis of capitalism and critical political economy:
Karl Marx I
Research
Homework
10
Analysis of capitalism and critical political economy:
Karl Marx II
Research
Homework
11
The Great Depression of 1929 and John Maynard
Keynes
Research
Homework
12
The 1929 Great Depression and the Ordoliberals in
Germany, the Mont Pelerin Society
Research
Homework
13
Neoliberalism: F. Von Hayek
Research
Homework
14
The new institutional economy: Douglass North
Research
Homework
8
9
15
16
Recommended or
Required Reading
Homework
The new institutional economics: Law and economy
Research
Homework
Final Exam
• Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Competing schools of economic thought, Berlin:
Springer, 2010.
• Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An outline of the history of
economic thought (translated by David Field), Oxford : Clarendon Press
; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Michel Foucault, The birth of biopolitics : lectures at the Collège de
France, 1978-79, (edited by Michel Senellart ; translated by Graham
Burchell), Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The origins of physiocracy : economic
revolution and social order in eighteenth-century France, Ithaca : Cornell
University Press, 1976.
• Adam Smith, Milletlerin Zenginliği, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2012.
• David Ricardo, Siyasal İktisadın ve Vergilendirmenin İlkeleri, İş Bankası
Kültür Yayınları, 2008.
• Richard Whatmore, Republicanism and the French Revolution: an
intellectual history of Jean-Baptiste Say's political economy, Oxford ;
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
• John Stuart Mill, Principles of political economy (edited with an
introduction and notes by Jonathan Riley), Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 1998.
• Karl Marx, Kapital Cilt: I, Ekonomi Politiğin Eleştirisi, (Çeviri: Nail
Satlıgan - Mehmet Selik), Yordam Yayınevi, 2011.
• Karl Marx, Kapital Cilt II, Ekonomi Politiğin Eleştirisi, (Çeviri: Mehmet
Selik), Yordam Yayınevi, 2012.
• Karl Marx, Kapital Cilt II, Ekonomi Politiğin Eleştirisi (Çeviri: Alaadin
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Bilgi), Sol Yayınevi, 1978/1997.
Sungur Savran, E. Ahmet Tonak, Nail Satlıgan, Kapital'in İzinde,
Yordam 2012.
Altuğ Yalçıntaş, Serhat Koloğlugil, Sevinç Orhan, İktisatta Bir Hayalet:
Karl Marx, İletişim Yayınevi 2012.
John Maynard Keynes, Genel Teori, İstihdam, Faiz ve Paranın Genel
Teorisi, Kalkedon Yayıncılık, 2010
Philip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The road from Mont Pèlerin :
the making of the neoliberal thought collective, Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press, 2009.
Peter Koslowski (derl.), The Theory of Capitalism in the German
Economic Tradition: Historism, Ordo-Liberalism, Critical Theory,
Solidarism, Springer, Berlin, 2000.Friedrich A. Hayek, Hukuk, Yasama
ve Özgürlük, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2012
Douglass C. North, Kurumlar, Kurumsal Değişim ve Ekonomik
Performans, Sabancı Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2002.
Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds.), Pioneers of law and
economics, Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2009.
Christian Laval, Pierre Dardot, Dünyanın Yeni Aklı, Neoliberal Toplum
Üzerine Deneme, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012.
ASSESSMENT
Term (or Year) Learning Activities
Class Participation
Weight, %
10
Weekly Homework exercices
40
Presentations
20
Mid-term examination
30
TOTAL
100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success
Grade
40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade
60
TOTAL
100
Dersin Öğrenme, Öğretme ve Değerlendirme Etkinlikleri Çerçevesinde İş Yükünün Hesaplanması
Etkinlikler
Sayısı
Süresi
(saat)
Toplam İş Yükü
(saat)
Ders Süresi (Sınav haftası dahildir: 16x
toplam ders saati)
16
3
48
Sınıf Dışı Ders Çalışma Süresi (Ön
çalışma, pekiştirme)
16
3
48
Sunum / Seminer Hazırlama/
2
7
14
Ödevler
16
3
48
Ara sınavlar
1
20
1
2
1
40
Laboratuar
Uygulama
Derse Özgü Staj(varsa)
Arazi Çalışması
Proje
1
20
Yarıyıl Sonu Sınavı
1
2
1
40
TOPLAM
180
AKTS KREDİSİNİN
HESAPLANMASI
240/30=8 ECTS
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes*
Programme Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes
PO
1
PO
2
PO
3
PO
4
PO
5
LO1
5
2
LO2
5
4
LO3
2
3
3
LO4
2
3
LO5
2
3
PO
6
PO
7
PO
8
PO
9
PO
10
PO
11
PO
12
PO
13
2
3
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
5
PO
14