Globalization as Risk and Opportunity 3700-ISSC-GRO

a. Knowledge:
An alumni:
- Understands the cultural and social processes that have been taking place globally (K_W01)
- Understands the relationships between the various dimensions of social change, including such phenomena as migrations, economic inequalities or development of communication technologies (K_W02)
- Understands the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of social changes in the modern world, especially in the Global North (K_W06)
b. Abilities:
An alumni:
- can select and critically assess information adopted from various academic publications, popular science, and popular press (K_U01)
- Is able to prepare an oral or written presentation taking into account the argumentative goals and needs of recipients, in particular with the use of a range of digital tools (K_U05)

c. Social competences:
An alumni:
- Is ready to undertake lifelong learning in order to adapt to changing conditions of labor market (K_K01)
- Knows the academic ethos and uses it to develop his own scholar achievements and personal growth (K_K06)

- Two essays (one per semester), 5-6 pages long
- Preparing one (per semester) introduction or presentation (on a topic consulted with lecturers)
- Preparation and active participation in class discussions.
Absences:
- It is possible to have 2 absences;
- In case of 3 or 4 absences, it is possible to make up for them after consultation;
- In case of 5 absences there is no possibility for obtaining course credit.

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Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James. 2012. Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers.
Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James. 2019. The Narrow Corridor. States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. New York: Penguin Publishers.
Acemoglu, Daron. 2021. Redesigning AI. Work, Democracy, and Justice in the Age of Automation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Allen, Robert C. 2011. Global Economic History. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baldwin, Richard. 2019. The Globotics Upheaval. Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V. 2011. Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. New York: Public Affairs.
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Easterly, William. 2009. The White Man’s Burden. Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much and So Little Good. New York: Penguin Books.
Ferguson, Niall. 2008. The Ascent of Money. A Financial History of the World. New York: The Penguin Press.
Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Brooklyn, N.Y: Melville House.
Hann, Chris M., ed. 2002. Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Practice in Eurasia. London: Routledge.
Hann, Chris M., and Keith Hart. 2011. Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique. Cambridge: Polity.
Hart, Keith. 2001. Money in an Unequal World. London: Textere.
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Mazzucato, Mariana. 2021. Mission Economy. A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.
Mazzucato, Mariana. 2018. The Value of Everything. Making and Taking in the Global Economy. London/New York: The Penguin Press.
Piketty, Thomas. 2020. Capital and Ideology. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. (albo coś innego)
Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.
Raworth, Kate. 2017. Doughnut Economics. Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. London: Random House.
Rodrik, Dani. 2011. The Globalization Paradox. Why Global Markets, States and Democracy Can’t Coexist. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, Vernon L., Wilson Bart J. 2019. Humanomics. Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thaler, Richard H., Sunstein Cass R. 2008. Nudge. Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Wilk, Richard R, and Lisa Cliggett. 2007. Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
Wilkis, Ariel. 2017. The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: The Penguin Press.

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