Capitalism and Regulation

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1 Syllabus Capitalism and Regulation Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Political Science Academic year: 2 Semester: 2nd Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: David Levi-Faur Coordinator levifaur@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday /15 Teaching Staff: Prof David Levi-Faur page 1 / 8

2 Course/Module description: This course is devoted to the relations between capitalism and regulation and polymorphic faces of both. Course/Module aims: Understanding the theories of capitalism and regulation and their relations. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: The course will allow the students to analyze the various facets of capitalism and regulation Attendance requirements(%): 80% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures, Discussions, students presentations. Course/Module Content: basic concepts in the study of capitalism and regulation varieties of capitalism varieties of regulation connections and conflicts Required Reading: Weber, Max The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York,: Scribner. (Translated to Hebrew, Am-Oved) Heilbroner, Robert L The Nature and Logic of Capitalism. New York: Norton. Schumpeter, Joseph Alois Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers. Smith, Adam [1776]. The Wealth of Nations. New York: Prometheus Books. [Translated to Hebrew, Open University] Harvey, David The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism. London: Profile. page 2 / 8

3 אוזר ג'ייקוב ובלאנשפילד וילאם, תולדות המחשבה הכלכלית, זמורה ביתן מודן, תל-אביב, תשל"ח. Heilbroner Robert, The Worldly Philosophers, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1986 (Translated to Hebrew, Shalem). Additional Reading Material: Democratic Capitalism!? or Capitalism Democratic Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Hayek, Friedrich A. von The Road to Serfdom. London,: G. Routledge & sons. Galbraith, John Kenneth The Affluent Society. Boston,: Houghton Mifflin. Harvey, David The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. Lindblom, Charles. Politics and Markets, Basic Books, New York, Class Capitalism Marcuse, Herbert One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston: Beacon Press. Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and Robert C. Tucker The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: Norton. Marx, Karl "The Communist Manifesto." in Karl Marx: Selected Writings, edited by D. McLellan. New York: Oxford University Press. Burawoy, Michael Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Centers, Richard The Psychology of Social Classes: A Study of Class Consciousness. New York: Routledge Press. Richard Freeman America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market.New York: Russell Sage. Financial Capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria, Penguin Books, page 3 / 8

4 Charles Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis, Basic Books, 1979 Joel Seligman, The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance, Houghton Mifflin Co Alfred Steinherr, Derivatives: The Wild Beast of Finance, John Wiley & Sons, 2000 Raghuran Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2010 Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, Penguin Press, 2010 Robert Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, Princeton University Press, 2005 Gerald Davis Managed By the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America. New York: Oxford University Press. Socially-Embedded Capitalism Polanyi, Karl The Great Transformation. New York, Farrar & Rinehart. Dobbin, Frank (2004) The Sociological View of the Economy in The New Economic Sociology ed by Frank Dobbin. Pp Entrepreneurial Capitalism Hayagreeva Rao Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The Culture of Capitalism Bell, Daniel The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties. Glencoe, Ill.,: Free Press. Lamont, Michטle Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and American Upper-Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Bell, Daniel The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books. The Passions of Capitalism George Akerlof & Robert Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism, Princeton University Press, 2009 page 4 / 8

5 Rothschild, Emma 2001 Economic Sentiments, Harvard University Press. Hirschman, Albert (1977). The Passions and the Interests: The Political Arguments for Capitalism before its Triumph. New Jersey: Princeton University Press Managerial Capitalism Berle, Adolf and Gardiner Means. The modern corporation and private property. Transaction Pub, Chandler, Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Belknap Press, 1977 Chandler Alfred, Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, Global Capitalism Frieden, Jeffry A Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W.W. Norton Frieden, Jeffry A., David A. Lake and J. Lawrence Broz International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth. 5th ed. W.W. Norton. Harvey, David The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism. London: Profile. Wallerstein, Immanuel World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press. Stiglitz, Joseph E Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton. De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic Books, 2000 Pre-Modern Capitalism K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, page 5 / 8

6 1985 Olivia Constable, Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Avner Grief, On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Journal of Economic History, 54:2 (June, 1994): Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Viking, B. W. Higman, The Sugar Revolution, The Economic History Review 53:2 (May, 2000), pp Barrington Moore, Jr Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Boston : Beacon Press, National Varieties of capitalism Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism. In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, ed. Peter A. Hall and David Soskice. London: Oxford University Press. Arrighi, Giovanni. Adam Smith in Beijing. London: Verso, Institutional Capitalism Williamson, Oliver E The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach. American Journal of Sociology 87, no. 3: Polanyi, Karl The Great Transformation. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. North, Douglass C. Institutions, institutional change and economic performance. Cambridge university press, Consumer Capitalism Illouz, Eva. Consuming the romantic utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. University of California Press, Illouz, Eva. Cold intimacies: The making of emotional capitalism. Polity, 2007.[Translated to Hebrew] MacCannell, D., 1999 (1973). The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class, University of California Press page 6 / 8

7 Natural & Resources and Monopoly Capitalism Sampson, Anthony. The seven sisters: the great oil companies and the world they shaped. Bantam Books, Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information feudalism: Who owns the knowledge economy?. Earthscan Publications, Welfare Capitalism Gosta Esping-Andersen, The Three World of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton Huber Evelyn and John Stephens, Development and the Crisis of the Welfare State, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Developmental Capitalism Weiss, Linda. "Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State." New Left Review (1997): דוד לוי-פאור, היד הלא נעלמה, הפוליטיקה של התיעוש בישראל, יד-בן צבי, List, Friedrich,. National system of political economy. JB Lippincott & Company, Political Capitalism Mancur, Jr. Olson The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Harvard University Press, pp אולסון מנקור, עלייתן ונפילתן של אומות, עם עובד, תשמ"ט. Caporaso, J. & D. Levine. Theories of Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1992 Risk Capitalism Newell Peter and Peterson Mathew, Climate Capitalism: Climate Change and the transformation of Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, Shamir Ronen The Age of Responsibilization: On Market-Embedded Morality. Economy and Society 37, 1, 1-19 Films, Videos and, maybe also Theater? Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Food Inc. Flow: How did a handful of corporations steal our water page 7 / 8

8 Powered by TCPDF ( Blue Gold: World Water Wars Metropolis Walmat Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 25 % Project work 75 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: none page 8 / 8