Course

Theories of the Global Free Market and their Critics - POLS5158

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Social Sciences

Course Outline: School of Social Sciences

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Excluded: POLS3047

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Neo-liberal or 'economic rationalist' arguments for the desirability of a global free market. Formal characteristics of 'free' market relations in economic theory. Free markets in theory v free markets in practice. Maximalist and minimalist arguments for free markets. Neo-liberalism and the critique of state economic intervention. The 'Asian Tigers' and neo-liberal theory. Critiques of maximalism and critiques of minimalism. State intervention and global economic competitiveness. Economic theory and global economic stability and instability.
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