The following is for students studying Economics of the Firm.
Please find attached files concerning my notes to lectures largely drawn from course textbooks, course reader and journal articles listed in 'Course Outline' (Week 1).
If you are making references to any lecture materials, please email me to ensure proper citation. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and is avoidable.
If there are any problems, please contact me:
email: sanghera@online.nsk.su ; balihar_sanghera@yahoo.co.uk
Cheers, Balihar Sanghera
Links to my other courses
Old and New Institutional Economics
Cultural and Moral Economy
Market Society: Meanings, Emdedding and Structures
Sociology of Consumption
Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research
Qualitative Research Methods
State and Society
Link to the Bishkek International Sociology Conference, 17-21 June, American University - Central Asia, sponsored by Civic Education Project Central Asia & Mongolia and American University - Central Asia
Links to my guest lectures and conference papers
Lectures at the University of Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
'Neutrality of Markets and Ethnicity - special references to embedding, abstractions and petty capital', CEP / Canadian Studies Minority Discourses Conference, Ustron, Poland
'After the cultural, a return to the moral economy', CEP Critical Sociology Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
'Sociology, imperialism and educational capital: the need to become a social scientist', CEP Sociology Round Table in Kaunas, Lithuania
Links to Civic Education Project (CEP) websites (for details of student conferences and other educational opportunities)
CEP Russia (important information on student conferences)
CEP (interesting information on educational and employment opportunities)
A link to social science websites
Social Science Websites - sites for social theory, online papers, journals, universities, research bodies and resources sites
Week 1: Course Outline
Schools of Thought
Week 2: Contracts, information and firms' behaviour
Week 3: Economic Methodology
Week 4: Organisation Innovations
Week 5: Privatisation and Regulation
Essays
Week 6: Labour market and control
Week 7 - There will be no test.
Week 8: Technological Change
Week 9: Science and Technology Policy
Week 10: Moral Issues in Business: Corporations
Week 11 and 12: Moral Issues in Business: Workplaces, Consumers and the Environment
Week 13: Examination
