- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Pluralism of Socio-Economic Systems 4003-PSGS-OG
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
Type of course
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 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.
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.
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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