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Module aims

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

(1) introduction: Capitalism and the Sociology of Neoliberalism
(2) Capitalism and its Liberal and Neolioeral Governmentalities
(3) Ordoliberalism and its American Others
(4) Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism
(5) The Sociological Roots of 1Jeoliberai Thought
(6) Markets: Their Powet s and Limitations
(7) Capitalism in Crisis?
(8) Neoliberalism and the State: Roll-Back and Roll-Out
(9) Crisis and the Reconstruction of Capital
(10) Conclusion Sociology as a Critical Resource

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• 1)Possess detailed knowledge of the social and political dynamics of contemporary capitalism;
• 2)Have a clear understanding of the connection between contemporary capitalism and its underlying art of neoliberai governance;
• 3)Be able to analyse and explain the reconfiguration of structural relations between the state and the market following the recent financial crisis.

Indicative reading list

Neil Brenner and Mik Theodore (eds.) Space of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Free Markets Since the Great Depression Harvard: Harvard
University Press, 2012.
Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. Cambridge: Polity, 2011.
Andrew Gamble, The Spectre at the Feast. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Blopolitics. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008.
Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. London: Routledge, 1944.
Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctine. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2007.
Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go To Waste. London: Verso, 2013.
Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (eds.) The Road to Mont Pelerin, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2009
Ludwig von Mises. Epistemological Problems of Economics. New York: Liberty Fund, 2013.
Jamie Peck, Constructions of Neoiiberal Reason. Oxford: Oxford, University Press, 2010.
Karl Polar•.vi, The Great Transformation. New York: Beacon, 2002.
Woifgang Streeck, Politics in the Age of Austerity. Cambridge: Polity, 2013.
Slavoj Zizek„ First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. London: Verso, 2009.
Slavoj Zzek, Living in the End Time. London: Verso, 2011.

Subject specific skills

Conceptual understanding of current advanced research in the study of the relationship between politics, economics and society.

Transferable skills

Demonstration of self-direction in devising assessment tasks and autonomy in conducting academic research.