Course 2009-2010 a.y.
8486 - TYPOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM
MM-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - DES-LS - CLG-LS - M-LS - IM-LS - ACME-LS - EMIT-LS
Department of Social and Political Sciences
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
MM-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - AFC-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - CLAPI-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - CLEFIN-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - CLELI-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - DES-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - CLG-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - M-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - IM-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - ACME-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI) - EMIT-LS (6 credits - I sem. - AI)
Course Objectives
Combining an institutional and historical perspective together with an analytical and economic point of view, we will investigate the evolution of different types of capitalism. Our typologies are based who wins the game:government? political oligarchies? the managerial class? or an extended entrepreneurship?
One of the main outcomes of the course will be to single out policies that could be adopted to assure the continued flourishing of a country’s economy.
Course Content Summary
- State Capitalism
- Oligarchic Capitalism
- Managerial Capitalism
- Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Textbooks
- W. BAUMOL et al., Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, Yale University Press 2007.
- Additional readings will be distributed during the course.
Last change 09/06/2009 14:20