Weekly Schedule:

1. S (Seminar): Moral and Political Philosophy and Economics

L (Lecture): Introduction to the Course. From Ancient Greece to the 16th Century.

2. S. Developments of Ideas on Property Rights.

L: From feudalism to capitalism, Pre-Classical Thought – Formative Period of Classical Political Economy: Mercantilists. Sir William Petty. Bernard de Mandeville, Richard Cantillon, Physiocrats – Francois Quesnay, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, David Hume.

3. S: Development of Ideas on Public Finance.

L: Classical Thought: Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Jean Baptist Say. The Age of Ricardo: David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus. Discussions of that Age. Classical Approach to Prices. Classical Approach to Recessions.

4. S: Economies as Systems.

L: Modern Time – Basic Milestones: John Stuart Mill. Marginalist Revolution - Background, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Léon Walras. Keynesian Revolution. Monetarist Counterrevolution. Philosophy of Science - Selected Topics.

5. S: Development of Ideas on International Trade.

L: Austrian School and its Neigbourhood: Karl Menger, Ludwig von Wieser, Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek. Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter. Neo Austrian School.

6. S: Factors of Production and Economic Growth and Development in Historical Perspective.

L: Neoclassical Thought in the Anglosaxonian World and its Neighbourhood before Keynes.

7. S:The History of Monetary Economics.

L: Marxist Economic Thought and its Neighbourhood.

8. S: Keynes and Mainstream Macroeconomic Thought after Keynes.

L: Piero Sraffa, Michal Kalecki and the Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics.

9. S: Postkeynesian Economics and Its Neighbourhood.

L: Institutional Economics and Ordoliberalism.

10. S: General Economic Equilibrium - from Triumph to Crisis. Welfare Econoomics and the Economic Theories of Justice.

L: Adam Smith in detail.

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S: Alfred Marshall in detail

L: John Maynard Keynes in detail

In 2024, these topics will be neither in the midterm nor in the final tests.

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13. S: Joseph Alois Schumpeter in detail

L: Closing the Course. What Character has our Knowledge of Economics? Why does Economic Thought Develop? Why do we study the History of Economc Thought?