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 Director:
FRANCO AMATORI

Classes: 31 (I sem.)

Instructors:
Class 31: FRANCO AMATORI

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.

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

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