Globalisation and ethics

Academic year: 2009-2010 Course code module FLWFM01000 Semester: 1st semester Credits: 6 Study load (hours) 168 Theory (hours): 30,00 Practice/Exercises(hours): Other (hours): Part-time program: 1 Instructor(s) Hendrik Opdebeeck Luc Van Liedekerke Language of instruction: Dutch Semester exam information: exam in the 1st semester Contract restriction information: 1. Prerequisites *Algemene competenties No specific prerequisites. *Sequentiality None 2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes) Gain insight into the process of economic and cultural globalisation Understand the impact of economic globalisation on ecological constraints and moral structures Analyse one aspect of the globalisation process in depth Synthesize central literature on globalisation and present this to the group     3. Course content economic development over the past centuries as seen through the eyes of economic historians The impact of economic growth on human development: HDI and Capabilities The institutional characteristics of the market system: a short digression into welfare economics (from the invisible hand to the first theorem of welfare economics) The two-way interaction between moral values and the market economy From the economy of the gift to the market economy The cultural contradictions of capitalism revisited Rebuilding the economy along social lines: the civil economy       4. Teaching method Direct contact: Seminars (possible question and answer sessions) Personal work: Assignments - individual 5. Assessment method Exam: Written, with oral presentation Continuous assessment: Assignments Written assignment: With oral presentation 6. Compulsory reading – study material H.Opdebeeck, Building Towers , Perspectives on Globalisation , Peeters, Leuven , 2002     Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, Cambridge University Press, ch. 11 Nicolas Crest, The World Economy in the 20th century, IMF paper Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, ch. 4,5,6,7 and 8 Stefano Zamagni, A CIVIL-ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE University of Bologna , May 2005   7. Recommended reading - study material L.Bouckaert, H.Opdebeeck, L.Zsolnai, Frugality, Rebalancing Values in Economic Life, Peter Lang, Oxford , 2008 8. Tutoring laatste aanpassing: last update: 16/01/2009 15:24 hanna.goossens