Series in Advanced Political Economy

Readings

Lecture 1: Costas Lapavitsas
Deane P (1978), The Evolution of Economic Ideas, Cambridge University Press, ch. 1 and 6
Heilbroner R (1967) The Wordly Philosophers, Simon & Schuster, (3rd ed).
Milonakis D. & B. Fine, (2009) From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory, Routledge, ch. 4 and 14.
Rubin I (1979), A History of Economic Thought, Ink Links, ch. 1, 2, 3, 18
Screpanti E & Zamagni S (2005), An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, 2nd ed, OUP, ch. 9 and 10

Lecture 2: Richard Wolff
Resnick, S. & Wolff, R.
1. Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy
2. New Departures in Marxian Theory
3. Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian
4. Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

Wolff, R. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

Lecture 3: Duncan Foley
Duncan K. Foley (2019) Social coordination problems in classical and Marxian political economy. Review of Social Economy, 0 (0):1–31
Katherine A Moos (2021) The political economy of state regulation: the case of the British Factory Acts, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 61–84

Lecture 4: Anwar Shaikh
Shaikh, Anwar (2016) Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises. New York: Oxford University Press: Ch. 6-9.

Lecture 5: Sara Stevano (postponed to 24/01/2023)
Bakker, Isabella. 2007. “Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy.” New Political Economy12 (4): 541–56.
Bhattacharya, Tithi. 2017. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. London: Pluto Press. [chapter 1, by Tithi Bhattacharya; chapter 2, by Nancy Fraser]
Mezzadri, Alessandra, Susan Newman, and Sara Stevano. 2021. “Feminist Global Political Economies of Work and Social Reproduction.” Review of International Political Economy, 1–21.
Naidu, Sirisha C., and Lyn Ossome. 2016. “Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women’s Labour in India.” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy5 (1): 50–76.
Rao, Smriti. 2021. “Beyond the Coronavirus: Understanding Crises of Social Reproduction.” Global Labour Journal12 (1).
Winders, Jamie, and Barbara Ellen Smith. 2019. “Social Reproduction and Capitalist Production.” Progress in Human Geography43 (5): 871–89.

Lecture 6: Satoshi Miyamura & Thereza Balliester Reis
Baglioni, E., L. Campling, A. Mezzadri, S. Miyamura, J. Pattenden, and B. Selwyn (2022). Exploitation and Labour Regimes: Production, Circulation, Social Reproduction, Ecology
Campling, L., S. Miyamura, J. Pattenden, and B. Selwyn, Benjamin, 2016, Class Dynamics of Development: A Methodological Note
Miyamura, S. (2021) Understanding Labour Relations and Struggles in India through Marx’s Method
Lapavitsas, C. 2013. Profiting Without Producing
Lavinas, L. 2018. The Collateralization of Social Policy under Financialized Capitalism

Lecture 7: Paulo dos Santos
Marx, K. Capital Volume I


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