Магистратура
2025/2026
Интеллектуальная история (экономическая и социально-политическая мысль)
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Политика. Экономика. Философия / Politics. Economics. Philosophy)
Кто читает:
Департамент теоретической экономики
Где читается:
Факультет экономических наук
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is intended to help a student to enter the universe of intellectual culture underlying contemporary social sciences, to perceive the origin and logic of basic ideas governing political movements and economic change. It is aiming at strengthening students’ intellectual and historical outlook, to cultivate skills of professional and public discussion. Pre-requisites: basics of philosophy; basics of the history of social thought.
Learning Objectives
- Provide knowledge of basic ideas and concepts constitutive for social thought through its history: individuality and society, sovereign and state, wealth and war, freedom and history
- Make students aware of philosophical and ethical assumptions, as well as inter-disciplinary links, of political and economic theories
- Provides skills of shaping one’s literary and intellectual background, its updating according to current research tasks
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Знает общие корни и характер взаимосвязи экономических и политических идей, понимает значение и логику развития базовых тем экономической науки, таких как экономический рост и эффективное использование ресурсов, возможности и границы государственного регулирования хозяйственных процессов, способен выявлять этические и идеологические предпосылки споров и конфликтов по социально-экономическим вопросам.
- Знает основные вехи развития политической мысли и ее ведущих представителей – Макиавелли, Гоббса, Руссо, Маркса, Берлина, Фуко; понимает истоки и логику общественных дискуссий о соотношении индивида и общества, власти и государстве, свободе и исторической необходимости
- Понимает значение междисциплинарных взаимосвязей между различными отраслями обществознания
- Различает основные подходы к истории идей, включая интеллектуальную историю, влияние на ее возникновение процессов дифференциации дисциплинарного знания
Course Contents
- Intellectual History as a Discipline
- Discovering political domain
- Discovering economic domain
Assessment Elements
- Seminar activity in Module 1Conscious participation in seminar discussions, mastering of reading materials, quality of reasoning, ability to express and defend one's ideas, compliance with academic standards of discussion.
- Seminar participation in Module 2Conscious participation in seminar discussions, mastering of reading materials, quality of reasoning, ability to express and defend one's ideas, compliance with academic standards of discussion.
- In-class essayMastering the topic, ability to structure the text, writing skills, quality of time management
- Test 1The test consists of several topics for short in-class essays covering the material discussed during the 1st module
- Test - 2The test consists of several topics for short in-class essays covering the basic themes of the 2nd module
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.3 * In-class essay + 0.2 * Seminar activity in Module 1 + 0.2 * Seminar participation in Module 2 + 0.15 * Test - 2 + 0.15 * Test 1
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Adam Smith. (2017). The Wealth of Nations. [N.p.]: Dancing Unicorn Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1468236
- Desmedt, L. (2005). Money in the “Body Politick”: The Analysis of Trade and Circulation in the Writings of Seventeenth-Century Political Arithmeticians. History of Political Economy, 37(1), 79–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-1-79
- Foucault, M., Burchell, G., Senellart, M., Ewald, F., & Fontana, A. (2009). Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=379853
- Hausman, D. M. (2008). The Philosophy of Economics. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.cup.cbooks.9780521709842
- Hobbes, T. (2009). Leviathan : The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. [Auckland, N.Z.]: The Floating Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=314027
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (2013). The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy. [N.p.]: Digireads.com Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1537646
- Machiavelli, N. (2014). The Prince. Newburyport: Open Road Media. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=820888
- Nichols, R., & Baum, B. D. (2013). Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom : ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=547154
- Olson, M. (1993). Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development. American Political Science Review, (03), 567. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v87y1993i03p567.576.10
- Olson, M. (2010). Dictatorship, Democracy and Development. Economic Policy, 167. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.rnp.ecopol.1019
- R. Skidelsky. (2006). Hayek versus Keynes: The Road to Reconciliation. VOPROSY ECONOMIKI. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.nos.voprec.2006.06.4
- Rogers, M. (2004). The Origins of Totalitarianism (Book). Library Journal, 129(6), 129. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=12683846
- The passions and the interests : political arguments for capitalism before its triumph, Hirschman, A. O., 1997
- Whatmore, R., & Young, B. W. (2016). A Companion to Intellectual History. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1089075
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A companion to contemporary political philosophy. Vol.1: ., , 2007
- Alfred Marshall. (2005). From Principles of Economics. World Scientific Book Chapters, 195. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812701275_0021
- Antoin E. Murphy. (2016). Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734). Chapters. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.h.elg.eechap.13936.5
- Chomsky, N., & Foucault, M. (2006). The Chomsky-Foucault Debate : On Human Nature. New York: The New Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=516587
- Durlauf, S. N., & Blume, L. E. (2008). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Vol. Second edition). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1203500
- Hirschman, A. O. (2013). The Essential Hirschman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=610643
- Kennedy, G. (2009). Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth. Econ Journal Watch, 6(2), 239–263. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=41530108
- Qvortrup, M. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt. Political Studies Review, 16(1), NP19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917723877
- Richard Cantillon's Essay on the nature of trade in general : a variorum edition, Cantillon, R., 2015
- Samuels, W. J., Biddle, J., & Davis, J. B. (2003). A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=108710
- Skinner, Q. (2012). Liberty Before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=909523
- The theory of economic development : an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle, Schumpeter, J. A., 2012