Pluralism of Socio-Economic Systems

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Course ID:	4003-PSGS-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Pluralism of Socio-Economic Systems
Name in Polish:	Pluralizm systemów gospodarczo-społecznych
Organizational unit:	Centre for Europe
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	The lecture has two aims. First - show the pluralism in contemporaries social-economic systems, second - outline connection between economy and society. Real economy is depend on system as well as social conditions. Economic system forms the real society and institutions. Lecture shows different ways of people choices and all consequences.
Full description:	The economic system influences the shape of society and of its constitutive institutions. The lecture presents various possibilities of choices the society makes and the consequences of these choices. 1. Social-economic systems. Characteristic and isolate factories 2. Globalisation 3. Liberalism and democracy 4. Communism 5. Polish transformation 6. Unemployment 7. Scandinavian system. Sweden and state prosperity 8. Japan - Asian system 9. Germany - social market economy 10. USA - system evolution Student's workload lecture - 30 hrs preparation to the exam - 30 hrs total - 60 hrs
Bibliography:	T. Kowalik, "Systemy gospodarcze. Efekty i defekty reform i zmian ustrojowych", Warszawa 2005 M. Freeden, L. Tower Sargent, and M. Stears (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, Oxford University Press 2013 A. Vincent, Modern Political Ideologies, Wiley-Blackwell 2009 M. Zwolinski, Arguing about political philosophy, Routledge 2009. D.A. Wittman and B.R. Weingast (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press 2008. A. Heywood, Political Theory: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan 2004. J. Knight, Institutions and Social Conflict, Cambridge University Press 2004. D.C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge University Press 2004. M. Freeden, Ideology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2003. R.L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, Penguin Books 2000. J.Z. Muller, Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present, Princeton University Press 1997. J.Z. Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society, Princeton University Press 1995. D. McLellan, Ideology. Concepts in social thought, University of Minnesota Press 1995.
Learning outcomes:	Students understand better social-economic qualities of modern world, make analysis of contemporaries effects, put it in wider contests and perceive reality in problematic way. Solution needs idealistic axiology chooses.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Final exam is written and consists of closed as well as opened questions. It’s possibly in some cases oral exam. Source of knowledge is lecture and literature.

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