Political Economy

Week 1 Tutorial 1

Intro

Let's meet

  • We will split into groups of three
  • Name your favourite movie, play, record, painting or book
  • Think of a PE angle in this work (of art)
  • Return to the main channel and introduce your group member to us all
  • Let us sketch these relations on a white-board

Let's meet

  • What is your name?
  • What is your story?

Course overview

  • What is Political Economy
  • What we will discuss
  • How we will work​ in tutorials
    • recap
    • presentation
    • Q&A
    • case
  • How will the lectures look like

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House rules

  • Be prepared
  • Read
  • Ask questions (really)
  • Late arrival
  • Zoom etiquette

Important

  • Mid-Term podcast (6-8 minutes) due end of week 4 (Friday 25th September midnight)
  • Workshop on final essay and research design (session 1 (Tue) in week 6)
  • Research proposal for final essay (RQ & Theory or Literature) due by end of week 6
  • Presentation of research proposals for final essay in week 7
  • Feedback on presentation (in-class; tutor, peer-reviewer and open discussion)
  • Final essay due end of week 8 (Friday 23th October midnight, 4,000 word)
  • In-class presentation (circa 12 minutes, on a current issue, work in pairs)

Slots

  • In-class presentation
    • week 2 to 5
  • Research proposal presentation
    • week 7 session 1 or 2
  • Fill in in Google Drive

Questions?

Break

Realism

Q&A on mercantilsm

  • What are the strengths and weakness of the neomercantilist perspective?
  • What is hegemony and how theories differ in their views regarding the current status of the USA?
  • What types of goods do we observe and what is the collective action problem?

Power and strucutre

Krasner, S. (1976) State Power and the Structure of International Trade. World Politics, 28 (3), pp.317-347.

Smith on mercantilism

Viner, J. (1948) Power Versus Plenty as Objective of Foreign Policy in the 17th and 18th Century. World Politics, 1(1), pp.1-29.

Case  

Economic interdependence

Case  

Economic interdependence

  • Let us listen to Milton Friedman – I, Pencil;
  • and now look at the change in the interdependencies.
  • I will split you into small groups

Case  

Economic interdependence

  • Identify in groups
    • actors
    • interactions
    • constraints
    • conflict
    • variables
    • patterns
  • Round table discussion

Thank you and see you on Thursday!