Tantárgy adatlap

A tantárgy szakmai tartalma: The course presents the basic concepts for comparing modern econmic systems and focuses on the analysis of the variants of modern capitalism, the institutional logic of socialism and the variants of postsocialist systems

Évközi tanulmányi követelmények: Participation in seminar discussions

Vizsgakövetelmény: Exam

Az értékelés módszere: Midterm exam 50%
Final exam 50%

Tananyag leírása: The aim of the course is to understand the logic and the different forms of industrial societies in a theoretical framework built on the conceptualization of the inter-relationship of economic and political structures. The readings shed light on the evolutionary logic and the historical forms of modern economies and polities. The course starts with the analysis of the concepts of democracy, property rights and market coordination. Then it deals with the different forms of capitalist industrialization, with the ties between the forms of industrialization and the forms of the modern state. We examine the emergence of the mixed economy and the welfare state that maintains the links between mass democracy and market economy. Modern capitalism assumes different forms, we analyze the alternative models of the capitalist system. Then we turn to the description of the socialist economy and polity. The socialist system is explained as an alternative form of industrialization under the circumstances of economic backwardness. This analysis rests on the concepts of Kornai’s shortage theory of socialism. The postsocialist transition in East-Central Europe was initiated by political changes. The course looks at the theoretical framework built up for the analysis of the democratization process and at the application of the concepts to the Hungarian case. The postsocialist transition has had to face the dilemma of simultaneity: the parallel processes of democratization, marketization and the remodelling of the welfare state. We deal with some of these problems: look at the political dynamics of economic reforms and the politics of privatization. We ask the question whether the postsocialist states are going to assume the characteristics of any existing models of capitalism, that is we address the problems of comparison between capitalist and postsocialist economies and polities.

Órarendi beosztás: According to Neptun

Kompetencia leírása: • developing analytical skills that are important for analyzing the interaction of econommic and political factors in contemporary economic development
• developing skills for comparative economic and political analysis

Félévközi ellenőrzések: Midterm exam

A hallgató egyéni munkával megoldandó feladatai: 

Szak neve: kommunikáció és médiatudomány alapképzési szak, nemzetközi tanulmányok alapképzési szak, szociológia alapképzési szak

Irodalomjegyzék:
Kötelező irodalom:

• Hayek, F. A.: The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 519-530
• Kornai, J.: The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 62-109
• Schumpeter, J. A.: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper Colophon Books, Harper&Row, 1975, pp. 250-283
• Gerschenkron, A.: Economic backwardness in historical perspective: a book of essays. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962, pp. 5-30
• Esping-Andersen, G.: Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 9-34
• Zysman, J.: Governments, Markets, and Growth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983, pp. 55-95
• Kornai, J.: The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 140-145, 228-261, 288-292, 360-382, 474-512
• McFaul, M.: The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship. Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World. World Politics, Vol. 54, January 2002, pp. 212–44
• Hellman, J. S.: Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions. World Politics, Vol. 50, No. 2, 1998, pp. 203-234
• Ǻslund, A.: How capitalism was built: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 143-181

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