PSCI 344
The Political Theory of Liberal Economics
Last Offered Spring 2013
Division II Writing Skills
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

This course deals with the economic and political writings of four important economists–Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Freidrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. Although all are remembered primarily as economists, they also engaged in writing political theory. This course will examine the political assumptions and implications of their economic thought and where they agree and disagree, particularly the role they assign to the state in constructing and sustaining markets. How do they conceive of the origin of markets? What role does the state play in making, supervising, and maintaining markets? Do the economists conceive of the state in similar terms and, especially, do the more libertarian economists really proceed as if markets are self-generated and spontaneous? What is it that economic theorists have the state doing? What is their implicit theory of the state?
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3659
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: grades are based on five to six papers and participation
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the Gaudino option
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills

Class Grid

Updated 10:25 am

Course Catalog Search


(searches Title and Course Description only)
TERM




SUBJECT
DIVISION



DISTRIBUTION



ENROLLMENT LIMIT
COURSE TYPE
Start Time
End Time
Day(s)