WEEK 1
1. Political Economy : Historical Evolution
2. Capitalism as an Evolving Economic System: Basic Features of Capitalism
3. Capitalism as a historical process;"The Materialist Conception of History
WEEK 2
4. Marxist Philosophy on Capitalism Critical Views on Capitalism
5. Liberal Views on Capitalism
6. Neo-Liberal Views on Capitalism
WEEK 3
7. Critical Views on Capitalism
8. Comparative thoughts on Capitalism: Marx & Weber
9. Capitalism, accumulation of capital, Rise of mercantile class
WEEK 4
10. The Economic theory of Capitalist Development
11. The Labour Theory of value
12. The Accumulation Process of wealth creation
WEEK 5
13. Concept of monopoly capitalism
14. Different views on monopoly capitalism
15. Lenin’s theory on monopoly capitalism
WEEK 6
16. Marxist view on monopoly capitalism
17. "Economic Crises" and Falling Rate of Profit , Crisis theory of political economy
18. “The Recent Crisis in Global Capitalism: Towards a Marxian Understanding”,
WEEK 7
19. Concept of modern corporation
20. Issues related to Capitalism and Socialism
21. The concept of the State.
WEEK 8
22. The Role of State
23. The state and the economy
24. Mutual interdependence between state and economy - Traditional Views
WEEK 9
25. Mutual interdependence between state and economy - Modern Views
26. Meaning of Conflict in Capitalism
27. Origin of Conflict in Capitalism
WEEK 10
28. State as an arena of conflict
29. Political Aspects of Full Employment
30. State’s role in ensuring full employment
WEEK 11
31. Concept of Imperialism
32. Lenin’s theory on Imperialism
33. Relevance of Lenin’stheory on Imperialism at current times.
34. Economic Imperialism - concept
WEEK 12
35. Imperialism - A Political Phenomenon
36. Neo- Imperialism- Basic Insights
37. The political economy of a rent-seeking society
38. The theory of economic regulation -Stigler
WEEK 13
39. Critique of Stigler’s theory
40. Need and Role of Regulatory Institutions for public welfare.
41. International Development - An Exploration
42. Transnational Corporations: The Governance of Foreign Investment
WEEK 14
43. The Knowledge and Technology Structure
44. Global Political economy in the Cold war era 1945-1989
45. Global Political economy in the post Cold war era 1991----
46. Economic management in an age of global markets
WEEK 15
47. Global markets and national politics
48. The idea of the ‘Third world’
49. The State in the Third World
50. Modernization and Political Development
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