{"id":1197,"date":"2016-08-16T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ciglob.org\/?page_id=1197"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T23:43:39","slug":"curso-ciglob","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ciglob.org\/ciglob_en\/curso-ciglob\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus – Inequality, crises and 21st century capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
Course: Syllabus<\/h5><\/div>

Inequality, Crises and 21st<\/sup> Century Capitalism <\/strong><\/h1><\/div>

Professor. Andr\u00e9s Solimano
\nUniversity of Economics, Prague<\/p><\/h5><\/div>

November 2014<\/h6><\/div>

Topics<\/strong>
\nThe course is intended to give students an analytical and empirical overview of the main trends of global capitalism in the 21st<\/sup> century. Special attention will be paid to the evolution of inequality, the rise of economic elites, the middle class and working class and the nature and effects of financial crises. The Latin American experience will be treated with more detail in a global context.<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>21st Century Capitalism: Concept and Historical Evolution. <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Arrighi, G. (2010) The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times<\/em>. Verso, London, New York.<\/p>\n

Frieden, J. (2006) Global Capitalism. Its fall and Rise in the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twentieth Century.<\/em> W.W. Norton and Company, New York, London.<\/p>\n

Solimano, A. (2014) Economic Elites, Crises and Democracy<\/em>, Beyond Neoliberal Capitalism<\/em>, Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Harvey, D. (2014) Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism<\/em>, Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Picketty, T. (2014) Capital in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em>. Harvard University Press.<\/p>\n

Marx, K. and F. Engels (1848[1979]), The Communist\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manifesto<\/em>, Penguin books: London.<\/p>\n

Blyth, M. (2011) Great Transformations. Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century<\/em>. Cambridge University Press. .<\/p>\n

Polanyi, K. (1944), The Great Transformation: Economic and political origins of our time<\/em>, Rinehart: New York.<\/p>\n

Marglin, S. A. and J.B. Schor (1991) The Golden Age of \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Capitalism. Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience<\/em>. Oxford Clarendon Press.<\/p>\n

Harvey, D. (2004) A Brief History of Neoliberalism<\/em>, Oxford University Press<\/p>\n

Dum\u00e9nil, G. and D. L\u00e9vy (2011) The Crisis of Neoliberalism<\/em>, Harvard University Press.<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Inequality of Income and Wealth. Theory and Measurement.<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Picketty, T. (2014) Capital in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em>. Harvard University Press<\/p>\n

Lakner, C. and B. Milanovic (2013) \u201cGlobal Income Distribution. From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession\u201d World Bank<\/p>\n

Atkinson, A., Picketty, T. and E. Saez (2011) \u201c Top Incomes in the Long run of History \u201c Journal of Economic Literature<\/em>, 49,1-73.<\/p>\n

Alvaredo, F., A. B. Atkinson, T. Piketty, and E. Saez: 2013, \u2018The World Top Incomes Database\u2019. http:\/\/topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu\/, Accessed 24\/01\/2013.<\/p>\n

Davies, J. (2008), Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective,<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Davies, J., S. Sandstrom, A. Shorrocks, and E. N. Wolff (2006), \u201cThe World Distribution of Household Wealth\u201d, UNU-WIDER:Helsinki.Available at:www.iariw.org\/papers\/2006\/davies.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Solimano, Andr\u00e9s (editor, 1998). Social Inequality,<\/em> Values, Growth and the State, University of Michigan Press.<\/p>\n

Forbes Magazine <\/em>(2011), \u201cThe World\u2019s Richest People. World\u2019s Billionaires\u201d, Online edition, available at: www.forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

L.F. Lopez-Calda and N. Lustig, editors, (2010) Declining Inequality in Latin America. A Decade of Progress<\/em>? UNDP, New York and Brookings Institution, Washington DC.<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Social Structure of 21st Century Capitalism: Economic Elites, The Middle Class and Labor<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Solimano, A. (2014) Economic Elites, Crises and Democracy, Beyond Neoliberal Capitalism<\/em>, Oxford University Press. Chapter 2 , 3 and 4.<\/p>\n

Solimano, A., (2008), \u201cThe Middle Class and the Development Process\u201d, Chapter 2 in A. Estache and D. Leipziger, editors, Stuck in the Middle. Is Fiscal Policy Failing the Middle Class<\/em>?, Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n

Atkinson, A., Picketty, T. and E. Saez (2011) \u201c Top Incomes in the Long run of History \u201c Journal of Economic Literature<\/em>, 49,1-73.<\/p>\n

Solimano, A. and D. Avanzini (2012) \u201cThe International mobility of Elites: Talent, Entrepreneurial and Political\u201d CIGLOB Working Paper. <\/em><\/p>\n

Wright-Mills, C. (1956[2000]),The Power Elite<\/em>, Oxford University Press: New York.<\/p>\n

Milanovic, B. and S. Yitzhaki (2002) \u201cDecomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World have a Middle Class?\u201d Review of Income and Wealth<\/em> 48 (29:155-178.<\/p>\n

Mooney, N. (2008) (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents. The Decline of the Professional Middle Class. <\/em>Beacon Press, Boston.<\/p>\n

Mosca, C. (1939) The Ruling Class, Elemnti di Scienza Politica<\/em>.Mc Graw-Hill Book Company, New York, Toronto, London.<\/p>\n

Pareto, V. (1991) The Rise and Fall of elites. An Application of Theoretical Sociology<\/em>, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK).<\/p>\n

Stiglitz, J. (2011) \u201cOf the 1 % by the 1 % for the 1%\u201d Vanity Fair,<\/em> May.<\/p>\n

Solimano , A. (2010) International Migration in an Age of Crises and Globalization. <\/em>Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n

Solimano, A. , editor, (2008) The International Mobility of Talent<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Florida, R. (2005). The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent<\/em>, HarperCollins: New York.<\/p>\n

Bellamy Foster, J. and R. Mc Chesney (2012) The Endless Crisis<\/em>. MR press, New York. Chapter 5.<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Financial crises: Origin and Propagation.<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Solimano, A. (2014) Economic Elites, Crises and Democracy, Beyond Neoliberal Capitalism<\/em>, Oxford University Press. Chapters 5 and 6.<\/p>\n

Reinhart, C. y Rogoff (2011 ) This Time is Different. Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stiglitz , J. (2010) Free Fall. America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy.<\/u> W.W. Norton and Company.<\/p>\n

Solimano, A. (2010), \u201cHow relevant is IMF Research on Macro-Financial\u00a0\u00a0 Linkages to reduce the frequency of financial crisis and recessions in the World Economy? An Overview\u201d, Paper prepared for the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF.<\/em><\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>The Latin American experience<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
UN-ECLAC (2011) La Hora de la Igualdad, Report, Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n

Solimano, A. (2012) Chile and the Neoliberal Trap. The Post Pinochet Era<\/u>. Cambridge<\/em> University Press.<\/p>\n

L.F. Lopez-Calda and N. Lustig, editors, (2010) Declining Inequality in Latin America. A Decade of Progress?<\/em> UNDP, New York and Brookings Institution, Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Smith, P. (2005) Democracy in Latin America. Political Change in Comparative Perspective. <\/em>Oxford University Press.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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