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)
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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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