PHIL-418 Economic and Social Thought Through the Ages
Offered: spring semester
Prerequisite: PHIL-105 and PHIL-205; ECON-190 or equivalent is highly recommended
Curriculum: meets core requirement, A&S/B&A
Description: An intellectual excursion through time, beginning with Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Adam Smith. Discussion of the nineteenth-century classical economists, with emphasis on Bentham, J.S. Mill and Marx. Study of growth of the Welfare State, protectionism and State intervention by reference to the writings of Keynes, and analysis of the rebirth of individualism in the latter part of the twentieth-century.
Current Text: under review
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PHIL-418-M01
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3
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Schwartz
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Eng
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T
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18:30-21:00
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Spring
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