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ECOP2613 The Political Economy of Global Capitalism

UNIT DESCRIPTION
This unit of study presents a historical perspective on the origins and development of capitalism. The analysis starts with a theoretical introduction covering issues of uneven development and the approach of social property relations, drawn inter alia from Ellen Meiksins Wood, to understand the “separation” of the “economic” and the “political” within capitalism. This approach is contrasted with the work of Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformationin order to assess the different positions on the shifting place of the economy in society linked to the issue of embeddedness. From these fundamentals, the unit progresses by understanding themes of primitive accumulation, the spatial expansion of capitalism, American Empire and “informal imperialism”, the transnational state thesis, the Global Financial Crisis, and counter-spaces of resistance within global capitalism.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Aims and context
 
The aim of this unit is to empower students to understand the origins and making of global capitalism. It provides the basis for a historically and theoretically informed understanding of changing relations between and within national economies in the 21^st century. It aims to develop
§  students’ understanding of important controversies in global political economy;
§  an ability to interpret political economy from different theoretical perspectives and by empirical analysis;
§  critical thinking about theories and concepts and an ability to apply and appraise them in different contexts;
§  effective written and verbal communication; and
§  a breadth of knowledge gained in an inter-disciplinary approach
 
Intended learning outcomes
 

Learning Goals	Graduate Attributes
1.  Be open to new ways of thinking and appreciate the importance of intellectual curiosity and reflection as the foundation for continuous learning.	Personal and Intellectual Autonomy: Graduates will be able to work independently and sustainably, in a way that is informed by openness, curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges.   Research and Inquiry: Graduates will be able to create new knowledge and understanding through the process of research and inquiry.
2.  Develop coherent arguments and critically evaluate theories in major fields of study.
3.  Demonstrate a willingness to meet new challenges and deadlines.
4.  Demonstrate a capacity to work independently including the ability to plan and achieve goals.
5.  Critically evaluate underlying theories, concepts, assumptions, limitations and arguments in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary fields of study.
6. Work with people from diverse backgrounds with inclusiveness, open-mindedness and integrity.

 
LEARNING STRUCTURE
To help develop these skills the course provides
 
·                     A two-hour weekly lecture which will present theories, histories, debates and information of the global political economy. Students are strongly encouraged to come to the lectures, which will cover material not necessarily available in the set readings. The detailed lecture program is outlined below.
 
Time(s):    Thursdays 10:00-12:00,
Location: Location:Merewether LectureRoom5(Room 277)
 
·                     Tutorials in which you will be encouraged to discuss and extend the material covered in the lectures, developing skills in co-operative work and oral presentation. Tutorial questions will be posted on Blackboard. These are intended as a guide to help direct tutorial discussions. It is expected that students will have considered them prior to attending the tutorials. However, tutorials are also intended as a forum where students can raise issues either from the lectures or their reading.
 
Students will attend an allocated tutorial. Tutorials begin in week 2.
 
·                     Reading: the set texts available as a reading block can be purchased from the University Printing Services. These are a compulsory minimum but students should also look at other texts and consult newspaper and internet sources. Further directed readings will be suggested on Blackboard for each topic to support the areas covered in the lectures and tutorials.

UNIT SCHEDULE

Week	Week beginning	Lecture [content]	Tutorial
1	25 July	Introduction and Overview	No Tutorials
		Global Economy, Global Capitalism?
2	1 August	The Origins of Capitalism	Introduction: uneven development
		The American Road to Capitalism
3	8 August	The Great Transformation	What is agrarian capitalism?
		Embedded Neoliberalism?
4	15 August	guest lecture Dr Damien Cahill,‘Rethinking The Great Transformation’	Embedded (neo)liberalism
5	22 August	Imperialism: The Accumulation of Capital	Rethinking The Great Transformation   Short essay deadline Monday 22 August 4:00pm
		The World Economy and the Compromise of “Embedded Liberalism”
6	29 August	Uneven Development	The Accumulation of Capital
		The World Economy in 1970
7	5September	Recapping the course so far	Uneven Development
		Global Capitalism and American Empire
8	12 September	Crisis in/of Capitalism	Global Capitalism and American Empire
		The Arab Uprisings
9	19 September	A Theory of Global Capitalism	Revolution and Counter-revolution in Egypt
		Confronting the Transnational State
BREAK	26-30 September	SESSION BREAK
10	3October*	Mexico: Revolution, Import Substitution Industrialisation, Neoliberalism	A Theory of Global Capitalism
		Mexico: Uneven Agrarian Development and Resistance
11	10 October	Austerity and Resistance in the Eurozone crisis	Spaces of Resistance in Mexico   Major essay deadline Monday 10October 4:00pm
		Global Financial Crisis
12	17 October	Postcapitalism?	Resistance and austerity in the Eurozone     Major essay deadline Monday 10 October 4:00pm
13	24 October	Overview and Conclusions	Community Economies or Lifestyle Anarchism?
		Revision and Exam Preparation
STUVAC	31 October	STUVAC
EXAMS	5 November	EXAM PERIOD commences

* NB: Public holiday on Monday 3 October.

 

ATTENDANCE

According to Faculty Board Resolutions, students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are expected to attend 80% of their classes.  If you attend less than 50% of classes, regardless of the reasons, you may be referred to the Examiner’s Board.  The Examiner’s Board will decide whether you should pass or fail the unit of study if your attendance falls below this threshold.
If a unit of study has a participation mark, your attendance may influence this mark. 
For more information on attendance, see http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/policies.shtml.
 
READING REQUIREMENTS
Each week, there is compulsory reading for tutorials. This is available in the ECOP2613 Course Reader. This must be purchased from the University Copy Centre(Shop 2, Lower Ground Level, Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre). Students must have completed each week’s compulsory reading in order to successfully participate in their tutorial.
In addition, it is recommended that students purchase Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Fifth Edition (Sage, 2012). No book can cover the entirety of a unit but this has many chapters pertinent to the unit that students will be able to draw on to widen their knowledge.
 
TUTORIAL – COMPULSORY READING
Week 1: No tutorials
Week 2: Introduction
§  Neil Smith, ‘The Geography of Uneven Development’, in Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds) 100 Years of Permanent Revolution. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
§  David Harvey, ‘The Geopolitics of Capitalism’ [1985] in David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
 
Week 3: What is Agrarian Capitalism?
§  Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Chapter 1.
§  Jairus Banaji, ‘The Fictions of Free Labour: Contract, Coercion and So-Called Unfree Labour’, Historical Materialism, 11:3 (2013): pp. 69-95.
 
Week 4: Embedded (neo)liberalism
§  Karl Polanyi [1944], The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957, Chapter 6.
§  Hannes Lacher, ‘Embedded Liberalism, Disembedded Markets: Reconceptualising the Pax Americana’, New Political Economy, 4:3 (1999): 343-60.
 
Week 5: Rethinking The Great Transformation
§  Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers, ‘Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi’, in Theda Skocpol (ed.) Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
§  Kurtuluş Gemici, ‘Karl Polanyi and the Antinomies of Embeddedness’, Socio-Economic Review, 6 (2007): 5-33.
 
Week 6: The Accumulation of Capital
§  Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2005) ‘Superintending Global Capital’, New Left Review, II/35: pp. 101-23.
 
Week 7: Uneven Development and North-South Relations
§  Ander Gunder Frank (1966) ‘The Development of Underdevelopment’, inRobert I. Rhodes (ed.) Imperialism and Underdevelopment: A Reader, New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 4-17.
§  W.W. Rostow (1960) The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chp. 3, 17-35.
Week 8: Global Capitalism and American Empire
§  Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, ‘Global Capitalism and American Empire’, in Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (eds) The Socialist Register 2004: The New Imperial Challenge (London: Merlin Press, 2003).
§  Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, ‘Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War’, Historical Materialism, 23:2 (2015): 94-130.
 
Week 9: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Egypt
§  Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change, Fifth edition, London: Sage, 2012. Chapter 8, pp. 216-50.
§  Brecht De Smet, ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt’, Science & Society, 78:1 (2014): 11-40.
 
Week 10: A Theory of Global Capitalism
§  William I. Robinson, ‘The Transnational State and the BRICS: A Global Capitalism Perspective’, Third World Quarterly, 36:1 (2015): 1-21.
§  Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, ‘The will-o’-the-wisp of the Transnational State’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No.72 (2013/14): 23-51.
 
Week 11: Spaces of Resistance in Mexico
§  Japhy Wilson, ‘Plan Puebla Panama: The Violence of Abstract Space’, in Łukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid and Ákos Moravánsky (eds) Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014: pp. 113-131.
§  Chris Hesketh, ‘Producing State Space in Chiapas: Passive Revolution and Everyday Life’, Critical Sociology, 42:2 (2014): 211-228.
 
Week 12: Resistance and Austerity in the Eurozone
§  Andreas Bieler and Jamie Jordan (Forthcoming) ‘Austerity and Resistance: The politics of labour in the Eurozone crisis’, in Vishwas Satgar (ed.) Crises of Capitalism and Left Reponses: Challenges for Class Struggle. University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press. Also available on Blackboard.
§  Elisabeth Gauthier (2013) 'Innovation - The Alter-Summit', transform! European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue, Issue 13; available at http://transform-network.net/journal/issue-132013/news/detail/Journal/innovation-the-alter-summit.html.
 
Week 13: Postcapitalism?
§  J.K. Gibson-Graham (2006) The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Chp. 1, pp. 1-23.
§  J.K. Gibson-Graham (2014) ‘Rethinking the Economy with Thick Description and Weak Theory’, Current Anthropology, 55(S9): pp. 147-53.
 

ONLINE COMPONENTS

This unit requires regular use of the University’s Learning Management System (LMS), also known as Blackboard. You will need reliable access to a computer and the internet to use the LMS.  The University uses learning analytics to understand student participation on the LMS and improve the student learning experience.
The easiest way to access the LMS is through MyUni (click on the ‘MyUni’ link on the university home page, http://sydney.edu.au or link directly to the service at https://myuni.sydney.edu.au/. There is a ‘Blackboard LMS’ icon in the top row of the QuickLaunch window on the left hand side of the screen.
If you have any difficulties logging in or using the system, visit the Student Help area of the LMS site, http://sydney.edu.au/elearning/student/help/.
The University’s Privacy Management Plan governs how the University will deal with personal information related to the content and use of its web sites. See http://sydney.edu.au/privacy.shtml for further details.
Lecture Recording
Lectures delivered in University-owned lecture theatres are recorded and may be made available to students on the LMS.  However, you should not rely on lecture recording to substitute your classroom learning experience.

ASSESSMENT TASKS AND DUE DATES

Assessment Name	Individual / Group	Length	Weight	Due Time	Due Date
Short Essay	Individual	1000 words	20%	16:00	22-Aug-2016
Major Essay	Individual	2000 words	40%	16:00	10-Oct-2016
Tutorial Participation & Attendance	Individual	N/A	10%	Weekly	Weekly
Examination	Individual	N/A	30%	N/A	N/A

SHORT ESSAY QUESTION

§  Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s social property relations approach to understanding the separation of the ‘economic’ and ‘political’ in capitalism.
 
MAJOR ESSAY QUESTIONS [CHOOSE ONE]
1.     What is the geography of capitalism and what specific spatial patterns and processes characterise uneven development?
2.     Critically analyse Fred Block and Margaret Somers’ statement that ’Polanyi’s writing can only be understood as a continuation and development of certain ideas within the Marxist tradition’.
3.     Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s arguments about the political economy of American empire.
4.     Within the transnational state thesis of William Robinson, assess the degree to which the state is today a mere transmission belt for the diffusing aspects of global capitalism.
5.     How would you analyse and assess the importance of counter-spaces of resistance in contesting global capitalism in the twenty-first century?
6.     To what extent does J.K. Gibson-Graham’s critique of capitalocentrism enable the supplanting of capitalist hegemony?

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

This unit uses standards-based assessment for award of assessment marks. Your assessments will be evaluated solely on the basis of your individual performance.

SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENTS

Compliance Statements
All students are required to submit an authorised statement of compliance with all work submitted to the University for assessment, presentation or publication. A statement of compliance certifies that no part of the work constitutes a breach of the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2016.
The format of the compliance statement willbe in the form of:
a.     a University assignment cover sheet; or
b.    a University electronic form.
Assessment Submission
Submission of assessment tasks will be required by the due date.  Written assessments must be submitted online through the LMS. Other assessments, for example visual or oral assessments, must be submitted according to the assessment instructions.
Work not submitted on or before the due date is subject to a penalty of 2% per day late. Refer to http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/late_work.shtmlfor the Policy on Late Work.

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ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND PLAGIARISM

Academic honesty is a core value of the University, so all students are required to act honestly, ethically and with integrity. This means that the University is opposed to and will not tolerate academic dishonesty or plagiarism, and will treat all allegations of academic dishonesty and plagiarism seriously.  The consequences of engaging in plagiarism and academic dishonesty, along with the process by which they are determined and applied, are set out in the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2016.  You can find these documents University Policy Register at http://sydney.edu.au/policies (enter “Academic Honesty” in the search field).
Definitions
According to the Policy, plagiarism means representing another person’s work (i.e., ideas, findings or words) as one’s own work by presenting, copying or reproducing it without appropriate acknowledgement of the source.  Academic dishonesty means seeking to obtain or obtaining academic advantage for oneself or others (including in the assessment or publication of work) by dishonest or unfair means.  Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:
·         Resubmission (or recycling) of work that is the same, or substantially the same as work previously submitted for assessment in the same or in a different unit of study. Every unit of study expects each student to produce new material based upon research conducted in that unit;
·         Dishonest plagiarism;
·         Engaging another person to complete or contribute to an assessment in your place; and
·         Various forms of misconduct in examinations (including copying from another student and taking prohibited materials into an examination venue).
Use of Similarity Detection Software
Students should be aware that all written assignments submitted in this unit of study will be submitted to similarity detecting software known as Turnitin. Turnitin searches for matches between text in your written assessment task and text sourced from the Internet, published works, and assignments that have previously been submitted to Turnitin for analysis.
There will always be some degree of text-matching when using Turnitin. Text-matching may occur in use of direct quotations, technical terms and phrases, or the listing of bibliographic material. This does not mean you will automatically be accused of academic dishonesty or plagiarism, although Turnitin reports may be used as evidence in academic dishonesty and plagiarism decision-making processes.Further information about Turnitin is available at http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/plagiarism_and_turnitin.shtml.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION

Students can apply for Special Considerationfor serious illness or misadventure.  An application for special consideration does not guarantee the application will be granted.
Further information on applying for special consideration is available at http://sydney.edu.au/current_students/special_consideration/index.shtml.

OTHER POLICIES AND PROCEDURES RELEVANT TO THIS UNIT OF STUDY

The Faculty’s Student Administration Manual is available for reference here http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/student_admin_manual.shtml. Most day-to-day issues you encounter in the course of completing this Unit of Study can be addressed with the information provided in the Manual. It contains detailed instructions on processes, links to forms and guidance on where to get further assistance.

YOUR FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT

The Unit of Study Survey
The University conducts an online survey for units of study every semester.  You will be notified by email when the survey opens.  You are encouraged to complete the survey to provide important feedback on the unit just before the end of semester.  You can complete the survey at http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/surveys/complete
 

STAYING ON TOP OF YOUR STUDY

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The Write Site provides online support to help you develop your academic and professional writing skills. All University of Sydney staff and students who have a UniKeycan access the WriteSite at http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/.
The FASS Writing Hub has a wide range of programs at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels that focus on writing across the curriculum.  The FASS Writing Hub offers drop-in sessions to assist students with their writing in a one-to-one setting. No appointment is necessary, and this service is free of charge to all FASS students and/or all students enrolled in WRIT units.  To find out more visit http://sydney.edu.au/arts/teaching_learning/writing_hub/index.shtml.
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Free online Library tutorialsare available at http://sydney.edu.au/library/skills, with one designed especially for students studying in the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/.
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OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES

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