Week 1
The History of Ideas and Economic Thought
Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 1-14
The Dawn of Economics: Plato and Aristotle
Robbins, pp. 5-26
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 3-15
Week 2
Medieval Economics and the Scholastic School
Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 19-22
AND Lowry pp. 115-135
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 16-29
Medieval Economics: Muslim Scholars
Samuel, Biddle and Davis pp. 28-45
Week 3
The Mercantilist Debate: Malynes, Misselden and Mun
Screpanti and Zamagni pp., 27-42
OR Samuel, Biddle and Davis pp. 46-61
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 32 - 44
Forerunners: John Locke, William Petty and Bernard de Mandeville
Samuel, Biddle and Davis pp. pp. 78-88
AND Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 43-49
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 59-62, 120-130
Week 4
Physiocracy and French Pre-Classical Political Economy
Samuel, Biddle and Davis pp. 61-75
OR Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 49-58
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 104-114
Pre-classical economics in Britain: David Hume and the Scottish enlightenment
Samuel, Biddle and Davis pp. 88-92
AND Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 63-65
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 135-140, 145-152
Week 5
Adam Smith’s Political Economy (I)
Vaggi and Groenwegen pp. 107-115
OR Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 65-77
AND Medema and Samuels pp. 156-161 (division of labor), 161-165 (theory of price)
Adam Smith’s Political Economy (II) and Smithian Orthodoxy
Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 104-106, 118 - 122
OR Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 77-87
AND Medema and Samuels, pp. 183-186 (Bentham), 349-253 (Say’s Law)
Week 6
Classical Economics: Malthus and Ricardo to Mill (I)
Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 129-135 (Malthus), 136-145 (Ricardo)
OR Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 90-100
Medema and Samuels, pp. 196-199 (Malthus), 272-282 (Ricardo on rent and distribution)
Classical Economics: Malthus and Ricardo to Mill (II)
Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 145-147 (Ricardo on Foreign Trade), 191-202 (Mill)
OR Screpanti and Zamagni pp. 111-121
AND Medema and Samuels, pp. 282-290 (Ricardo on Foreign Trade), 335-337, 350-352 (Mill)
Week 7
Karl Marx and Utopian Socialism
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 133-146
AND Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 159-163
AND Medema and Samuels, pp. 404-407
Midterm exam
Week 8
Karl Marx’s Capital
Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 163-172
AND Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 146-163
OR Samuel, Biddle and Davis, pp. 148-167
AND Medema and Samuels, pp. 378-396
The Historical School of Economics: List and Von Thunen
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 146-163
OR Samuel, Biddle and Davis, pp. 215-231
Week 9
The Marginalist Revolution: Jevons, Menger, Marshall (I)
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 163-179, 189-192
OR Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 203-216
The Marginalist Revolution: Jevons, Menger, Marshall (II)
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 196-208
OR Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 227-238
AND Medema and Samuels, pp. 504-515
Week 10
Early equilibrium theory: Wilfredo Pareto and Leon Walras
Samuel, Biddle and Davis, pp. 278-294
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 180-188, 223-228
Medema and Samuels, pp. 464-476
Technology and development in Joseph Alois Schumpter (paper outline due)
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 262-265
Roncaglia, pp. 416-431
Week 11
John Maynard Keynes and the years of High Theory
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 232-251
OR Roncaglia, pp. 384-397
Medema and Samuels, pp. 592-596
Keynes and the General Theory
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 251-257
OR Roncaglia, pp. 398-415
Medema and Samuels, pp. 596-608
Week 12
Post-war General Equilibrium Theory
Samuels Biddle and Davis, pp. 377-394
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 280-391, 323-335
The Formalist approach of the 1950s
Samuels, Biddle and Davis, pp. 395-410
AND Roncaglia, pp. 491-500
Week 13
The Monetarist Counter-Revolution
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 251-257
Vaggi and Groenwegen, pp. 319-320
The New Welfare Economics and the Economic Theory of Justice
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 396-411
Week 14
The Post-Smithian era: Institutional Economics
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 466-490
Samuels, Biddle and Davis, pp. 462-471
Beyond Homo Economicus? MMT and Radical Political Economy (Final paper due)
Screpanti and Zamagni, pp. 500-515