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070512 KU Global Economic Developments (4 ECTS) (2005W)

Global Economic Developments (4 ECTS)

0.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 24.10. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 31.10. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 07.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 14.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 21.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 28.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 05.12. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 12.12. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 09.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 16.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 23.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 30.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Problems for discussion
The rise of the world system: a concept and origins. Two approaches to the study of history: stages (formations of society) and civilisations. Three macroformations of society. The secondary macroformation of society as the economic formation and diversity of civilisations. East and West: two kinds of personality and economic dynamics in the long-term period. A puzzle of capitalism's origin - a key to the world-system's approach (a uniqueness of capitalism). Revolutionary character of the western societies. The sources and rise of modern epoch. Culture of modernity. The mid-millennium: an expansion of the West and stagnation of the East. Traditional and modern society. Modernisations as modernity in action (Alain Touraine). Endogenous and exogenous modernisations. Three echelons of capitalist development and a division of the world system into core (centre), periphery and semi-periphery. The conceptions of Immanuel Wallerstein and Fernand Braudel. Pre-industrial, early-industrial and late-industrial modernisations in the centre of the world system; its particular features. Social agents and conflicts in the process of modernisation. The theory of big cycles (Kondratiev and Schumpeter) and the social-technological stages of modernisation. Big cycles and the world hegemony.
The industrial revolution and colonialism. Objective limits to the capitalist expansion in the XIX century (Karl Marx and illusions of modernity; Max Weber and decline of the XIX century capitalism). Capital-property and capital-function: domination of the latter. Claude Monet and Henry Ford: revolutions in paintings and technologies. The rise of new social strata. Signs of decline and crises of the first third of the XX century. The renovation of capitalism and the managerial revolution. The fordist-keynesian model and triumph of social-reformism. The dictatorships of middle class? The problem of catching up development: new opportunities.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Associated-dependent development and accelerated industrialisation at periphery of the world system. Pretensions of the developing countries and response of the West. Neoliberalism, market renaissance and their non-market foundation. From the Leftist idea of social equity towards the Rightist principle of elitism. Neoconservative wave: post-capitalism under capitalist slogans? The new technological revolution and globalisation. Counter-revolution as a form of progress?
Two models of information society as two models of globalisation: expansion of innovations and creative activity versus optimisation of resources allocation and financial flows. The growth of financial bubble. The global slowdown of productivity growth: what does it mean? The rise of new configuration of the world system. The North in the South and zones of the South in the North. Globalisation as decline of modern epoch? The end of the Second World (the collapse of communism and paradoxes of History). Implications of the Soviet experience for the XXI century players: "optimisation" and "distributivism" as causes of the collapse. Structural adjustment and restoration of archaic social life. The main agents of development in the XXI century. Prospects of the global turmoil. A search for alternative models.
Arrighi G., 2000. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. London: Verso.
Bagchi A.K., 2000. The Past and the Future of the Developmental State. - Journal of World-Systems Research, vol. 6, N 2, Summer/Fall.
Bairoch P., 1982. International industrialisation levels from 1750 to 1980. - Journal of European Economic History, vol. 11, N 2.
Berle A. A., jr., 1959. Power without Property: A New Development in American Political Economy. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Cardoso F.H., Faletto E., 1978. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Translated by Marjory Mattingly Urguidi. Berkeley, Los Angeles, L.: University of California Press.

Prüfungsstoff

The Soviet system as a pure embodiment of managerial capitalism. The rise of periphery as the general trend of the XX century capitalism. Anti-capitalism as the XX century form of the capitalist development, or why we should glorify the cold war. The phases of big cycles and catching up development: accomplishments and illusions. Modifications of big cycles at the world periphery. What is modernisation trap?
The general crisis of industrial capitalism and decline of modernity. 1968: the point of bifurcation? The worldwide shift towards post-industrial society (information society, society of knowledge, network society, etc.).
The expansion of creative activity and the accumulation of human capital. The start of transition towards the tertiary (post-economic or non-economic) macroformation and the global changes. Struggle for the New International Economic Order and decline of the Third World.

Literatur

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Castells M., 1998. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol. III. End of Millennium. Oxford (U.K.), Malden (Ma): Blackwell Publishers.
Chang Ha-Joon, 2002. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. Lnd.: Anthem Press.
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Frank A.G., 2005. East and West. - In: Dar al Islam - the Mediterranean, the World System, and the Wider Europe: The Chain of Peripheries and the New Wider Europe. Ed. by P. Herrmann and A. Tausch. Hauppage (N.Y.): Nova Science Publishers.
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Hobsbawm E., 1994. Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991. London: Penguin Books.
Inozemtsev V.L., 2001. One World Divided: Existing Causes and Possible Results of the Coming Post-Economic Revolution. Leeds: Wisdom House.
Jones E. L., 1981 (also published in 1992 and 1997). The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Maddison A., 2001. The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. P.: OECD.
[The] New Authoritarianism in Latin America, 1979. Ed. by D. Collier. Princeton (N. J.): Princeton University Press.
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Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MGW02; A5; LAGA5, LAPA5 (D700/Zeitgeschichte bzw. D610) (Modul Globalgeschichte; Magisterstudium Globalgeschichte)

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:31