| 1 | Introduction: Paradigms and Social science |  Kuhn, Thomas. Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780226458083. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 2 | Theories of the Liberal State and Politics |
Locke, John. Chapters 1-5, and 7-9 in Second Treatise on Civil Government. The Editorium, 2010. ISBN: 9781434103055. [Preview with Google Books] Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." In Four Essays on Liberty. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780192810342. Federalist Paper #10 Condorcet. "Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch." Translated by Keith Michael Baker in Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Summer 2004): 65-82.
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| 3 | Neo-Classical Theories of the Economies |
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp. 1-55, 108-37, and 161-90. ISBN: 9780226264219. [Preview with Google Books] Becker, Gary. Chapters 1, 8, 12, and 13 in The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990. [Preview on Google Books] Recommended Dobb, Maurice. Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith: Ideology and Economic Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780521099363. [Preview on Google Books]
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| 4 | Liberal and Neo-Classical Approaches |
Olson, Mancur. Chapters 1-4 in The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780674537514. [Preview with Google Books] Hayek, Frederich. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 in Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780226320939. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Harsanyi, John. "Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories." World Politics XXI (October 1968 - June 1969): 513-37.
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| 5 | Marxist Politics |
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. "The Communist Manifesto." In The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition). Edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978, pp. 469-500. ISBN: 9780393090406. ———. Preface to a "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy." In The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition). Edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978, pp. 3-6. ISBN: 9780393090406. Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Translated by D. D. L. CreateSpace, 2011. ISBN: 9781461072270. (Read in entirety, NOT in Tucker version). Recommended Gramsci, Antonio. Selections From the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Edited by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. International Publishers Co, 1971, pp. 1-276. ISBN: 9780717803972.
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| 6 | Marxist Economics and Value Theory |
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. "Capital." In The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition). Edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978, pp. 294-465. ISBN: 9780393090406. Howard, M. C., and J. E. King. The Political Economy of Marx. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1988, pp. 1-180. ISBN: 9780814734537. [Preview with Google Books] Rubin, I. I. Introduction and chapters 1, 8, and 18 in Essays on Marx's Theory of Value. HarperCollins India, 2007. ISBN: 9780919618183. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 7 | Macroeconomics and Theories of Growth |
Keynes, J. M. Chapters 1-3, 8-13, and 24 in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936). Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010. ISBN: 9781169831995. [Preview with Google Books] ———. "The Great Slump of 1930," "Economy," and "The End of Laissez-Laissez-Faire." In Essays in Persuasion. pp. 126-50, 126-50, and 272-95. ISBN: 9781463525354. Akerlof, George A., and Robert J. Shiller. Preface, and chapters in 1-4, 6, and 7 in Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper). Princeton University Press, 2010. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 8 | Sociological Theories of Capitalism |
Alfred Stepan. Chapters 1 and 2 in The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective. Princeton University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780691021799. Avery Dulles. Chapters 1-3 in Models of the Church. DoubleDay, 1974.
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| 9 | Sociological Theories of Capitalism (cont.) | Polanyi, Karl. Chapters 3-14 in The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780807056431. | Questions (PDF) |
| 10 | Cultural Theories of Capitalism | Weber, Max. Introduction and chapters 1-3, and 5 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN: 9781456328634. [Preview with Google Books] | Questions (PDF) |
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| 11 | Corporatism |
Boltanski, Luc, and Eve Chiapello. "Conclusion: The Force of Critique." In The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso, 2007, pp. 485-524. ISBN: 9781844671656. [Preview with Google Books] Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008, pp. 81-163. ISBN: 9780061561610.
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| 12 | Institutionalism |
North, Douglas. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521397346. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Immergut, Ellen M. "The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism." Politics and Society 8, no. 1 (March 1998): 5-34.
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| 13 | New Institutionalism | Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. Varieties of Capitalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-68. ISBN: 9780199247752. | |
