Political Economy






The following is for students studying Political Economy.

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: balihar_sanghera@yahoo.co.uk

take care, Balihar Sanghera

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Links to my other courses

Cultural and Moral Economy
Old and New Institutional Economics
Economics of the Firm
Sociology of Consumption
Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research
Qualitative Research Methods
State and Society
Market Society: meanings, embedding and structures
Introduction to Political Economy

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

Bishkek Sociology Conference

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)
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Week 1: Course Outline
Introduction

Week 2: Economic and Political Spheres

Week 3: Classical Political Economy

Week 4: Marxian Political Economy

Week 5: Neo-classical Political Economy

Week 6 & 7: Keynesian Political Economy

Week 8: Test

Week 9: Mid-semester break

Week 10: Power-centred Approaches

Week 11: State-centred Approaches

Week 13: Jamilya Jeenbaeva - New Political Economy and Development - lecture notes
Lecture slides

Week 14: Jamilya Jeenbaeva - Transaction Cost Theory and the State - lecture notes

Week 15: Jamilya Jeenbaeva - Good Governance - lecture notes

Week 16: Jamilya Jeenbaeva - Polanyi - lecture notes

Examination

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