Author: IPE
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY LECTURES
1POL547
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
SEMESTER 1 2007-2008
Dr. Richard Barbrook
Room 408 Wells Street
Extension 2313
R.Barbrook (a) wmin.ac.uk
Option: International Political Economy
Code: 1POL547
Staff: Richard Barbrook and Nik Howard
Time and Location: Thursdays 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Fyvie Lecture Theatre
Assessment Scheme: Essay (2,500 – 3,000 words): 30%
Unseen Examination: 70%
Assessment Criteria: Full Details in your handbook.
Synopsis: Criteria for grading assessed work will include the following:
Structure and Quality of Argument
Use of Evidence
Contents
Writing, Presentation and Communication Skills
Assignment Deadline: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Office Hours: Please email or phone to make an appointment
Room 408 Wells Street
Website: http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/author/ipe/
There is a link in the blogroll on the bottom right-hand side of the Imaginary Futures website.
Key text: Meghnad Desai, Marx’s Revenge: the resurgence of capitalism and the death of statist socialism, Verso, London 2002.
The quickest and easiest way to obtain a copy of this book is from abebooks.
LECTURE PROGRAMME
1. 27th September
Introduction: What is International Political Economy and why does it determine your life? (RB)
2. 4th October
The Lessons of History: the East Asian miracle and Japan’s bubble economy of the late 1980s. (NH)
3. 11th October
The 18th and 19th Century Theories of the Global Political Economy: Liberalism versus Nationalism versus Marxism. (RB)
4. 18th October
The 20th Century Theories of the Global Political Economy:
Leninism versus Keynesianism versus Neo-Liberalism. (RB)
5. 25th October
Theory into Practice: North Korea and South Korea. (NH)
6. 1st November
Building the World Market: the rise and fall of the British empire 1649– 1914. (RB)
7. 8th November
Private Study Week
8. 15th November
Managing the Global Economy: the ascendancy and decline of the American empire 1914-2007. (RB)
9. 22nd November
Money as Command: chaos and order in the international financial system. (RB)
10. 29th November
The Carbon Economy: the affluent society and the limits to growth. (RB)
11. 6th December
The Global Village: the Net as dotcom capitalism and cybernetic communism. (RB)
12. 13th December
Think Locally, Act Globally: beyond the neo-liberal paradigm. (RB)
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PERIODICALS
The Economist
Capital & Class
Journal of Political Economy
International Studies Perspectives
The World Economy
Third World Quarterly
Race and Class
New Left Review
Journal of World Trade
OPEC Review
Asian Pacific Review
World Development
The Journal of Asian Studies
The Journal of Japanese Studies
Japan Forum
WEBSITES
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
http://www.iccwbo.org/
http://www.europa.eu.int
http://worldbank.org/
http://eldis.org/
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
http://www.newunionism.net/
http://www.un.org/climatechange/
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Assignment
Answer ONE question, typed in 12 point or above and approximately 2,500 words in length.
Submit to the Assessment Letterbox in the SSHL Undergraduate Office, Wells Street by 6.00pm, Tuesday 8th January 2008.
Severe penalties will apply to late entries.
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