The first two classes will be online in Moodle to leave students enough time to come to the Czech Republic. The rest of the course will be face-to-face

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			Topic Lecture/seminar	Milestones for the final paper, and deadlines for homework
1	21.02.	Lect.	Medieval ec. Systém – in Moodle	HW4
2	28.02.	Lect.	Ancient ec. System – in Moodle	HW5
3	7.03.	Lect.	Introduction, description of the course, final paper, grading requirements
4	14.03.	Lect.	Current economic system 1.	Milestone 1. Topic of the paper
5	21.03.	Lect.	Current economic system 2.	HW1, Milestone 2. Aim of the paper
6	28.03.	Lect.	Current economic system 3.	HW2
7	4.04.	Lect.	World economic system	Milestone 3. Literature survey, HW3
8	11.04.	Sem.	Presentation 1, 2	HW6
9	18.04.	State holiday
10	25.04.	Sem.	Presentation 3, 4
11	2.05.	Sem.	Presentation 5, 6	Milestone 4. The main part, argument and discussion
11	9.05.	Sem.	Presentation 7, 8
12	16.05.	Exam		Milestone 5. Final paper submitted

Structure of the course

Class 1. Lecture 1. Introduction. The structure of the course, organisation of the course, lectures, seminars and readings, papers, requirements.

Part I The current economic systems.

Class 2. Lecture 2. The market system versus command system. Main mechanisms and players. The circular flow. Economic cycles. The zero milestone for the final paper – the topic.

Class 3. Lecture 3. The role of money and financial markets in current economic system. The history of money

The first milestone for the final paper – the topic and the aim of the paper

Class 4. Seminar 1. Group work and student presentations

· Inequality

· Social systems

Class 5. Seminar 2. Group work and student presentations

· Political systems

· Civil society

Part II Medieval economic systems

Class 6. Lecture. The second milestone for the final paper – the aim of the paper and the literature survey

Class 7. Seminar

Class 8 Seminar

Part III Ancient economic systems

Class 9. Lecture

Class 10. Seminar. The third milestone for the final paper – the main part, arguments and discussion.

Part IV World economic system according to Immanuel Wallerstein

Class 11. Lecture . World economic system according to Immanuel Wallerstein

Class 12. Seminar. States or corporations as the governing force. History and the current state

Class 13. Exam. The forth milestone for the final paper – the whole paper submission date.

* Required reading:

- Bell, Daniel, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, New York, BasicBooks, 2001.
- Cord, Robert, Keynes, London, Haus, 2007.
- Kelbrook, Anthony, Adam Smith, London, Parma, 1998.
- Kornai, János, Economics of Shortage, Amsterdam, North-Holland Publ.Comp., 1980.
- Moore, Barrington, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1977.
- Schumpeter, Alois, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, London, Allen&Unwin, 1954.
- Sraffa Piero, Dobb Maurice, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, 2004.
- Staniszkis, Jadwiga, The Ontology of Socialism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Stark, David, Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism, Budapest, Collegium Budapest
(Institute for Advanced Study), 1994.
- Tucker, Robert, The Marx-Engels Reader, New York, Norton, 1978.

* Recommended reading:

- Bell, Daniel, The Coming of Post-industrial society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1976.
- Braudel Fernand, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995.
- Hayek, Friedrich, The Road to Serfdom, London, Routledge, 1971.
- Kornai, János, From Socialism to Capitalism, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2008.
- Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations, London, Everyman's Library, 1966.
- Staniszkis, Jadwiga Post-Communism: The Emerging Enigma, Warsaw, Institute of Political Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences), 1999.
- Wallerstein, Immanuel, Antisystemic movements, London, Verso, 1989.
- Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, London, Routledge, 2001.