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Year 3 Economics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr R Dixon.
Prerequisite: 316-201 Intermediate Macroeconomics.
Contact: Three hours of lectures and seminars a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should:
- be able to read and critically evaluate works dealing with economics by and about Marx;
- be able to read and critically evaluate periodical literature in post-Keynesian economics;
- be familiar with non-neoclassical streams of thought and with criticisms of neoclassical economics.
Content:
Early and modern views on the central concern of classical economics: the production, extraction and allocation of the economic surplus. Marxian economics as a study of surplus labour, the nature of the labour process and the dynamics of capitalist economies. The revival of interest in classical and Marxian economics; a critical study of the central propositions of post-Keynesian theory. Policy implications of recent work in Marxian and post-Marxian and post-Keynesian economics.
Assessment:
A 2-hour examination (60 per cent) and class assignments totalling approximately 4,000 words (40 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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