Print syllabus(in Polish) Decyzje, sprawiedliwość, dobrobyt społeczny
General data
| Course ID: | 3500-FAK-DSDS-OG |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.2
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| Course title: | (unknown) |
| Name in Polish: | Decyzje, sprawiedliwość, dobrobyt społeczny |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Sociology |
| Course groups: |
General university courses |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | Polish |
| Type of course: | general courses |
| Prerequisites (description): | (in Polish) Kolejność zgłoszenia |
| Mode: | Classroom |
| Short description: |
The lecture gives an overview of the most important problems related to decision-making and their consequences for social welfare. Presented are methods of decision making, including selected issues of social choice theory and public choice. Special attention will be devoted to the problems of justice, both in terms of global concepts for determining a fair social governance and the methods of solving the practical problems of division. Discussed will be ways to evaluate social welfare and the relationship between prosperity and social inequalities. The lecture also covers selected issues of cost-benefit analysis, problems and methods of delivery of public goods and the use of shared resources. |
| Full description: |
The lecture gives an overview of the most important problems related to decision-making and their consequences for social welfare. Presented are methods of decision making, including selected issues of social choice theory and public choice. Special attention will be devoted to the problems of justice, both in terms of global concepts for determining a fair social governance and the methods of solving the practical problems of division. Discussed will be ways to evaluate social welfare and the relationship between prosperity and social inequalities. The lecture also covers selected issues of cost-benefit analysis, problems and methods of delivery of public goods and the use of shared resources. Listed below are the topics of individual lectures. 1. Social decision making a. Individual decisions and the social decisions b. The first paradoxes c. The consequences of various methods application 2-3. Social choice theory a. A review of the social choice theory problems b. Collective decision making methods of dichotomous decisions c. The properties of collective decision making methods d. Arrow’s general theorem of possibility e. The consequences of Arrow’s theorem f. Limited domains of social choice g. Strategic manipulation of choice rules h. Electoral systems i. The paradoxes of liberalism and federalism 4. Public choice theory a. A methodological comparison of the social choice theory and the public choice theory b. A review of the public choice theory problems c. Spatial theory of voting d. Paradox of participation e. The logic of collective action and the theory of interest groups 5. Fair division of goods a. Concepts of distributive justice b. Justice problems in the social science c. The classical concepts of global justice d. Three types of justice rules 6-7. The practical problems of goods divisions a. Practical problems of goods division b. Types of indivisible goods distribution c. Point systems d. Justice as unanimity e. Criteria of the problem-solving in the division of goods f. Overview of methods of goods division 8. Analysis of the costs and benefits a. The fundamental problems of cost-benefit analysis b. Criteria for the evaluation of the projects: the principle of Pareto optimality and Kaldor-Hicks's principle c. Distributive weights in the costs-benefits analysis 9. Social welfare a. Social welfare and individual well-being b. Social welfare functions c. Exchange of the goods and competitive equilibrium 10. Social inequality and social welfare functions a. Types of social inequalities b. Criteria of evaluation of social inequalities c. Measures of inequality 11. Optimality and equality a. Optimality or equality? b. Redistribution, transfers and their consequences c. Concept of Okun’s "the leaky bucket" d. Kuznets’s hypothesis about the relationship between inequalities and welfare 12. Income tax system a. Four principles of tax burdens b. The principle of equal sacrifice c. Tax tariffs in Poland d. Tax and motivation to work 13. Common resources a. Dilemmas of commons b. Tragedy of the Commons and other social pitfalls in terms of game theory c. Research programme CPR - common resource management 14. Public goods a. Private goods and public goods b. Inefficiencies of taxes on the production of public goods c. Voluntary participation in the provision of public goods: a problem of free riding d. The games for the public good e. The search for Pareto optimum 15. Methods of providing public goods a. Noncooperative methods of providing: public goods: Lindahl’s solution b. The mechanism of Vickrey-Clarke-Grovers c. The effect of the method of taxation: the results of experimental research |
| Bibliography: |
Książki: Arrow, K.J. 1963. Social Choice and Individual Values. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Wydanie drugie, rozszerzone (wydanie pierwsze 1951). Gramlich, E.M. 1998. A Guide to Benefit-Cost Analysis. Prospect Heights: Waveland. Haman, J. 2003. Demokracja, decyzje, wybory. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. Hankiss, E. 1986. Pułapki społeczne. Wiedza Powszechna. Kot, S.M., Malawski, A., Węgrzecki, A. 2004. Dobrobyt społeczny, nierówności i sprawiedliwość dystrybutywna. Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej w Krakowie. Lis¬sow¬ski, G. (red.). 2001. Elementy teorii wyboru społecznego. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. Lis¬sow¬ski, G., Zasady sprawiedliwego podziału dóbr. 2008. Okun, A.M. 1975. Equality and Efficiency. The Big Tradeoff. The Brookings Institution. Olson, M. 2012. Logika działania zbiorowego. Dobra publiczne i teorie grup. Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Scholar”. Ostrom, E. 2013. Dysponowanie wspólnymi zasobami. Wolters Kluwer. Rawls, John. 1994. Teoria sprawiedliwości. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Sen, A.K. 1970. Collective Choice and Social Welfare, San Francisco: Holden-Day. Sen, A.K. 1973. On Economic Inequality. Oxford: Clarendon Press. H.P. Young. 2004. Sprawiedliwy podział. Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Scholar”. Wilkin, J. (red.). 2005. Teoria wyboru publicznego. Wstęp do ekonomicznej analizy polityki i funkcjonowania sfery publicznej. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. Wilkin, J. (red.). 2012. Teoria wyboru publicznego. Główne nurty i zastosowania. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. Wilkinson, R., Pickett, K. 2011. Duch równości. Tam gdzie panuje równość, wszystkim żyje się lepiej. Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca. Artykuły: Bożykowski, M. 2011. Procedury podziału zbioru dóbr niepodzielnych. „Decyzje” 11: 5-22. Kamiński, M.M. 1994. Twierdzenie Arrowa: przykład zastoso¬-wania meto¬dy aksjo¬¬ma¬tycznej w naukach społecznych. „Studia Socjologiczne” Nr 3-4, 73 92. Lissowski, G. 2003. Wprowadzenie do przestrzennej teorii głosowania. „Studia Socjologiczne” 1 (168): 9-37. Lissowski, G. 2005. Trzy typy zasad sprawiedliwości dystrybutywnej. „Decyzje” 3: 5 54. Lissowski G. 2007. Paradoksy liberalizmu i federalizmu. „Decyzje” Nr 7: 5 27. Lissowski, G. 2012. System punktowy jako metoda podziału zbioru niepodzielnych dóbr. „Decyzje” 18: 5-24. Lissowski G. 2013. Metody podejmowania decyzji w organizacjach międzynarodowych. „Decyzje” 19: 5-33. Lissowski G. 2015. Społeczne aspekty analizy kosztów i korzyści. „Decyzje” 23: 47-69. Słoczyński, T. 2012. Zastosowanie zasady równych ofiar do oceny sprawiedliwości taryfy podatku dochodowego od osób fizycznych (PIT) w Polsce. „Gospodarka Narodowa” Nr 10. Young, H. P. 1988. Distributive justice in taxation. “Journal of Economic Theory” 44: 321-335. Young, H. P. 1990. Progressive taxation and equal sacrifice. “American Economic Review”: 80: 253-266. |
| Learning outcomes: |
Knows and understands basic concepts of various sub-domains of sociology (e.g. sociology of family, health, work, religion, economy, education, etc) Is aware of ongoing theoretical and methodological disputes conducted in modern sociology; is reflective and critical of various positions Has in-depth knowledge about social structures and selected social institutions as well as their interrelations Is reflective and critical of the problem of social differentiation and inequalities Has in-depth knowledge about the types of social ties and mechanisms supporting collective governance Has in-depth knowledge about cultural diversity and its transformations, cultural identity, and intercultural interaction and communication Has in-depth knowledge about major international and domestic sociological research pertaining to selected areas of social reality or sub-domains of sociology Has in-depth knowledge of norms and rules governing social structures and institutions Has in-depth knowledge about the functioning and management of various types of organizations Has in-depth knowledge of assumptions and claims of selected historical and contemporary sociological theories Knows how to interpret the role of culture in the life of the individual and society Is open to various theoretical and methodological perspectives of social research |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Written exam |
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