History of Economic Thought
| Numbering Code | U-AGR04 2D204 LJ43 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | 2nd year students | Target Student | ||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Tue.3 | |
| Instructor name | SAKANASHI KENTA (Graduate School of Agriculture Associate Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | We will examine economic thought as new ideas and directions of development to overcome various economic and societal problems and as raising the problems of economic methodologies that underlie them. We will also examine the historical development process, focusing on the historical background and the perception of the relationship between human society and the economy. We will also touch on the impact of these thoughts on non-Western countries. | |||
| Course Goals | Understand the societal context in which economics has emerged and evolved and how it has broadened and affected Asia, Africa, and Latin America. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
1. Concepts in the history of economic thought 2. Western medieval economic thought: Thomas Aquinas and others 3. Ages of Discovery, Mercantilism, Physiocracy: James Stewart, Francois Quesnay, and others 4. The birth and colony of economics: Adam Smith 5. About social thought and slavery: Karl Marx 6. German Historical School and Austrian School: Karl Knies, Carl Menger, and others 7. Expansion into economic anthropology: Karl Polanyi 8. Sociologists' economic theory: Max Weber 9. Criticism from the Third World: Rosa Luxembourg, Andre G. Frank 10. Neoliberalism and Latin America: Milton Friedman and others 11. The beginning of the end of capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein and others 12. Southeast Asian moral economies: James Scott, Samuel Popkin, and others 13--14. Development economics and African farmer economy: Arthur Lewis, Golan Heiden, Francis B. Nyamunjo, and others [Final examination] 15. Feedback: Questions on lectures and tests in the week after the exam will be received, and responses will be sent by e-mail, etc. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Small reports (30%) to be assigned at each class; results of the final exam (70%) | |||
| Course Requirements | None in particular | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Read the literature assigned in class, review, and further learn. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | None | ||
| References, etc. | 大田・鈴木・高・八木編 『経済思想史：社会認識の諸類型』 (名古屋大学出版会) [Daejeon, Suzuki, Taka, Yagi, eds., History of Economic Thought: Types of Social Recognition, University of Nagoya Press], ISBN: 4815805407, is the most helpful for understanding the outline of the ideas of famous economists and history of economic thought. ヴィジャイ・プラシャド 『褐色の世界史』 (水声社) [Vijay Prashad, Brown World History, Suiseisha], ISBN: 4891769270, outlines the history of projects against colonialism of the third world. They will be helpful for understanding the background of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the latter half of the lecture. | |||
