Spring 2005 Advance Course Information

This information effective for Spring 2005. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Politics

[POLI-100-02] [POLI-105C] [POLI-114] [POLI-140A] [POLI-178] [POLI-200D]

100-02. Foundations of Political Economy

Note: This is a prospective syllabus. There will be several changes to the final syllabus.

Instructor: Dean Mathiowetz

Course Description

This is a writing-intensive junior seminar for upper-division students interested in the history of political-economic thought and its relation to questions of political theory. The course focuses on the theoretical origins of and justifications for property and the implications of economic interdependence for modern political and psychic life. The course also considers the intellectual contexts in which aspects of modern economic theory were developed. Students' grades are based on classroom participation, three midterm papers (4-6 pages in length), and a final paper (15 or more pages in length, incorporating two of the midterm papers on a single theme or closely related themes).

Schedule of Meetings

Meeting 1: Introduction to the course and its central questions.

What is political economy?
Why read old texts?

Meetings 2 & 3: Politics and the Economy of Power

Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 4, 5, 13, 14, 17, 18, 26

Meeting 4: The Power of Economy: Labor Theory of Property

Locke, Second Treatise of Government, ch. 1-9, 15-19
(Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers, ch. 2)

Meeting 5: Historical Vision and the Origin of Critique

Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Meeting 6: Reformulation of the Contract

Rousseau, On Social Contract

Book I: ch. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
Book II: ch. 1, 3, 4, 6-11
Book III: ch. 4, 9, 11
Book IV: ch. 1,2, 7-9

(Heilbroner, ch. 3)

Meeting 7: Mercantilism, Luxury, Addiction

Smith, Wealth of Nations

Book IV: chs. 1, 2, 7-9
Book V: chs. 1, 2

(Polanyi, The Great Transformation, chs. 4-6)

Meetings 8 & 9: Theorizing Liberal Economy

Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I: chs. 1-9
Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, sections i, ii

Meetings 10 & 11: The Specter of Conflict & Birth of the Margin

Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy, chs. 1, 2, 5, 25

Meeting 12: The Disciplinary Birth of Political Economy

Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
Foucault, "On Governmentality"
(Heilbroner, ch. 4)

Meeting 13: Market Forces and the Modern Psyche

Mill, On Liberty, chs. 1, 3-4
Tocqueville, Democracy in America

"Author's Introduction"
Vol. I: p. 31-9, 49-57, 66-70, 87-98, 193-201
Vol. II: Book 2, chs. 1, 13, 14, 16, 18-20; Book 4, ch. 6.

Meetings 14 & 15: The Return of Right

Hegel, Philosophy of Right, pars. 41-81, 182-214, 230-71

Meetings 16 & 17: Critique of Political Economy

Marx, Selections from The German Ideology, Wage Labor and Capital,
and Capital, Vol. 1, pp. 147-63; 172-5; 184-94; 207-10; 302-17; 319-45;
349-61
(Heilbroner, ch. 6)

Meeting 18: Revolutionary Writings

Marx, Selections from The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pp. 473-91; 499-500

Meeting 19: The Iron Cage

Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
(Polanyi, chs. 17-19)
(Heilbroner, ch. 7)

Meeting 20: Imperialism

Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, pp. 229-33; 236; 239-44; 257-60; 270-74
Hobson, Imperialism, ch. 6
Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes, ch. 5

Meeting 21: Depression

Keynes, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money"
(Heilbroner, chs. 9, 10)
(Polanyi, chs. 20, 21)

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105C. Modern Political Thought

Please note: This is syllabus for Winter 2004. Requirements, readings, and schedule are subject to change for Spring 2005.

Note: POLI 105C also offered as Legal Studies 105C.

Instructor: Megan Thomas

Course Description

This course surveys 19th- and 20th-century political theory, emphasizing continental European thought. In the first unit of the course, we will read texts that investigate the themes of human consciousness, labor, and alienation. The second unit of the course groups works that address issues of freedom and morality, and the third and final unit is on capitalism and culture. By keeping these themes in mind, we will compare and draw together texts that in many ways have quite divergent methods, styles, and concerns; at the same time, as we try to make connections between works, we will still also try to pay attention to their differences and to the particular concerns that each theorist raises. Authors covered include Benjamin, Fanon, Foucault, Hegel, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marx and Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Perkins Gilman, Taylor Mill, and Weber.

Course Requirements and Grading:

Final grades for the course will be determined as follows:

Attendance and Participation:
Students are expected to attend all lectures and sections well prepared and participate in class discussion as appropriate. There will be nine section meetings over the course of the quarter, and you must attend at least seven of those to pass the course. You are responsible for any changes in the readings, schedule, etc., that may be announced in class; if you need to miss a class, find out from one of your classmates what you missed.

Papers:
There are three papers required for this class. All papers will be collected in class, at the beginning of class; once lecture begins, they will be considered late. Papers will be marked down for lateness at the rate of 1/3 of a letter grade a day: 1/3 of a grade for up to 24 hours late, 2/3 of a grade for 24-48 hours late, 1 full grade for 48-72 hours late, etc.

Re-Write Option:
Students may choose to submit a re-written version of one of their first two papers for a new grade (in which case the final grade for that paper will be an average of the original grade and the grade of the re-written paper). TAs will only grade re-written papers if the following conditions are met: 1) the original paper must have been submitted on time. 2) You must meet with your TA about your paper re-write before submitting it (it is up to you to leave enough time to schedule this before the re-write is due), and 3) You must submit, along with the re-written version of the paper, the original paper with your TA's comments and original grade. 4) The re-written paper must be a substantive revision of the original paper (when you meet with your TA, make sure that you understand what this means).

Required Reading:

You will be asked to bring with you to lectures and sections the relevant texts for those meetings; it will be easiest for you if you buy all of the required books and the reader. You might be able to locate these books used, or in different editions. I recommend that you use these editions as it will make locating passages in lecture and sections easier; if you use another edition, you are responsible for making sure that it includes in full the sections that we will read for class; and it will be up to you to keep track of the differences in page numbering, translation, etc. All of these texts, and those from which the selections in the reader have been taken, will also be on reserve (not e-reserve) at McHenry Library.

Books (available at The Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust St [M-F 10am-6pm] and on reserve at McHenry Library):

• Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967. Reprint, October 1991. ISBN: 0802150845 (~$13 new)
• Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1979. Reprint, May 1995. ISBN: 0679752552 (~$14 new)
• Hegel, G. W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A. V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0198245971 (~$19 new)
• Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and Robert C. Tucker, eds. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978. ISBN: 039309040x (~$26 new)
• Mill, John Stuart. The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill. New York: Modern Library, 2002. ISBN: 0375759182 (~$10 new)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo. Translated by Walter Kaufman. New York: Vintage, 1967. Reprint, November 1989. ISBN: 0679724621 (~$13 new)
• Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge, 1992. Reprint, May 2001. ISBN: 041525406X (~$14 new)

Reader Contents (Reader is available at Slug Books [469-7584]; these books are on reserve at McHenry Library Reserves):

• Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin, edited by Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken, 1968. pp. 217-51.
• Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. "Enlightenment as Mass Deception." In Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. pp. 94-136.
• Perkins Gilman, Charlotte. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. 9th ed. New York: Gordon Press, 1975. Chapters I and XI, pp. 1-22 and 225-247.
• Taylor Mill, Harriet. "Enfranchisement of Women." In Essays on Sex Equality, by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, edited by Alice S. Rossi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. pp. 91-121.

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114. Thinking Green: Politics, Ethics, Political Economy

Instructor: Ronnie Lipschutz

Course Description

What does it mean to "think Green?" Are Green politics and environmentalism the same? If not, how do they differ? What are the philosophical bases of Green thought? Were Aristotle and Hobbes closet Greens? Do Green political parties have any chance of gaining power, or are they doomed to opposition? What does it mean to be biocentric? Is sustainable development feasible or a fantasy? What do Green political programs propose to do? This is a course on Green political thought and practice. In it, we shall examine the origins and content of ecological politics, ethics and political economy, and ask whether they offer a "realistic" alternative to neo-liberalism and other political ideologies.

The workload for the course is substantial. In addition to intensive reading, students will be expected to write three papers of five pages in length that analyze and critique the readings and draw on additional materials, as well. Part of the course will consist of lectures, but there will be substantial discussion of the materials in class, and everyone is expected to contribute to them through group presentations of various perspectives on Green Thought.

(See http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/pol114/syllabus.html for the course syllabus from Winter 2002).

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140A. Politics of Advanced Industrialized Societies

Instructor: Eleonora Pasotti

For course information, go to the class web page:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~pasotti/140a/

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178. U.S. Foreign Economic Policy

Instructor: Roger Schoenman

For course information, go to

http://people.ucsc.edu/~rschoenm/teaching.htm

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200D. Political Economy

Instructor: Ronnie Lipschutz

Course Description

This core seminar, which is open to all graduate students at UCSC, introduces students to the theories and methodologies of political economy. It focuses on the relationship between states and markets and considers the politics of economic choices and institutions germane to both national and global political institutions. The course also addresses the origins and development of markets and capitalism; the historical evolution of states and their economies; the relationship between labor, capital, production, and consumption; regulation of production; macroeconomics and management of economies; and issues of social welfare, both national and global. Each student will be required to submit a 2-3 page critique of the readings for seven of the nine sections, as well as a 10-page prospectus for a theoretical paper at the end of the quarter. Each week, two students (who may collaborate or not, as they wish) will be asked to prepare a set of questions to present to the class and to lead the discussion.

(See http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Pol200D/Syllabus.html for the course syllabus from Winter 2003).

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