Course outline (draft)

PSS 354
Introduction to Political Economy
(Book reference with what to read)
Course Instructor: Md Mahbub Alam, Asst.Prof. email: mahbub-pss@sust.edu

Sl. Author Book What to read

1 Charles Gide Principles of Political Wealth, value, price, association, division of labor, metallic
Economy money, paper money, various principles of distribution
2 James A. Politics and economics, classical approach, Marxian political
Caporaso, and D Theories of Political economy, Neoclassical political economy, Keynesian
avid P. Levine Political Economy, economic approach to politics, state-
Economy centered approach to political economy, justice centered
theories

3 Theodore H. Global Political Global Economic Relations before WWI (mercantilist period,
Cohn Economy industrial revolution and British Hegemony, decline of British
Hegemony and the WWI, interwar period, institutional
framework before WWII), postwar economic institutions and
changing North-South relations (IMF, WB, WTO),
International monetary relations (balance of payments,
functions and valuation of money, pre and post Bretton
Wood’s international monetary relations), Global trade
relations (pre and post WWII trade relations, formation of
WTO), regionalism and global trade, multinational
corporations and global production, foreign debt and financial
crises
4 Thomas Oatley International Political C.9. politics of multinational corporations.
Economy C.11. cooperation, conflict, and crisis in the contemporary
international monetary system.
C.15 Developing countries and international finance-the
global capital flow cycle
5 Jeffry A. Frieden World Politics: Part III: why do countries trade what they trade, domestic
interests, interactions, institutions and trade policies, who wants to borrow and who
institutions wants to lend, debtor-creditor interactions, is the IMF biased
against developing countries, why do corporations go
multinationals, what are exchange rates and why do they
matter, who cares about exchange rates and why, what
happens when currency collapse, development.
6 M. Riad El- The political Part 2. The analytical issues of land reform and rural poverty
Ghonemy economy of rural Part 3. Institutional monopoly and rural poverty
poverty
7 Stephan Haggard The Political C.1. Business-government relations, the politics of moral
Economy if hazard
International C.4. the politics of financial and corporate restricting
Financial Crisis