Sumários
Control, separation and association within classical liberalism
30 Outubro 2025, 14:30 • Ana Cristina Costa
Control, separation and association within classical liberalism
Required Readings for the lecture:
Caldas, José Castro, Ana Costa and Tom Burns (2007), “Rethinking economics: the potential contribution of the classics”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31(1): 25-40.
Complementary readings:
Clift B (2014) Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [Chapter 3]
Mill, John Stuart. (1868). Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (People's Edition). London: Logmans, Green, Reader and Dyer [Book II, Chapters I and II].
Nussbaum, Martha C. (2004), “Mill Between Aristotle & Bentham”, Daedalus
133(2): 60-68.
Smith, Adam (1993[1776]), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Book 1, Chapter VII, 53-62; Book 1, Chapter XI, 145-157].
Watson, Matthew (2005), “What makes a market economy? Schumpeter, Smith and Walras on the coordination problem, New Political Economy, 10 (2): 143-161.
Debate 1
29 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ana Cristina Costa
Debate 1
In-class debate 1 is devoted to the following topic:
‘Do economic ideas influence policy making? And how?’
Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates
9 Outubro 2025, 14:30 • Ana Cristina Costa
Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates
Required Readings for the lecture:
Simon, Herbert A. (1955), “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 69: 99-118.
Complementary readings:
Kanheman, Daniel (2003), “Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics”, American Economic Review December: 1449-1475.
Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates
8 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ana Cristina Costa
Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates
Required Readings for the lecture:
Sen, Amartya (1977), “Rational Fools”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6(4): 317-344.
Complementary readings:
Bowles, Samuel (2004), Microeconomics – Behaviour, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, [Chapter 3].
Hirschman, Albert O. (1985), “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating some Categories of Economic Discourse”, Economics and Philosophy 1: 7-21.
Nussbaum, Martha C. (1997), “Flawed Foundations: The Philosophical Critique of (A Particular Type of) Economics”, The University of Chicago Law Review, 64(4): 1197-1214.
The problem of social order: control, separation and association
2 Outubro 2025, 14:30 • Ana Cristina Costa
The problem of social order: control, separation and association
Required Readings for the lecture:
Hardin, G. (1968), “The Tragedy of the Commons”, Science, 162:1243-1248.
Wade, Robert (1987), “The Management of Common Property Resources: collective action as an alternative to privatisation and state regulation”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 11: 95-106.
Complementary readings:
Demstz, H. (1967), “Toward a theory of property rights”, American Economic Review, 62: 347-59.