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The fundamental aim of the course is to give students awareness that Political Economy is a discipline that hasn't a linear and cumulative development, but a competitive one. The competitive view of the development of economic thought implies neither equivalence between different theoretical approaches nor absence of scientific progress. It implies that it is impossible to choose among them with absolutely objective criteria.
The course aims to outline historic evolution of economic science, with particular attention to the work of following economists:W. Petty; R. Cantillon; F. Quesnay; A. R. J. Turgot; A. Smith; D. Ricardo; K. Marx; W. S. Jevons; L. Walras; A. Marshall; J. M. Keynes; J. A. Schumpeter; P. Sraffa.
1. INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND ITS ROLE. 2. THE BIRTH OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE. 3. BETWEEN MERCANTILISM AND CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: W. Petty and R. Cantillon. 4. THE PHYSIOCRACY. 5. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: A. R. J. Turgot, F. Galiani and D. Hume. 6. CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: A. Smith, T. R. Malthus and D. Ricardo. 7. THE DEVELOPMENTS OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY PART I: K. Marx. 8. NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS: W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, F. Von Wieser, E. Von Bohm-Bawerk, L. Walras, A. Marshall, A. C. Pigou e I. Fisher. 9. KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS. 10. J. A. SCHUMPETER. 11. THE DEVELOPMENTS OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY PART II: P. Sraffa.
Alessandro RONCAGLIA, Breve storia del pensiero economico, Laterza, 2016.
Alessandro RONCAGLIA, L'età della disgregazione. Storia del pensiero economico contemporaneo, Laterza, 2019. (only for non-attendant students).
Frontal lectures with slides projections and short movies.
Written exam, with open questions.