Contemporary Political Economy

B.A. (Hons.) Optional Paper (Sem. VI) and GE (Sem. IV)

Downloadable Readings Link & Relevant Reading Materials from CPE Dossier

UNIT I. Approaches to Political Economy

a) Classical Liberalism
i) Arblaster, A. (2006) ‘The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism’ in Lal, D. Reviving the
Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty first Century. Princeton:
Princeton University Pre&ss, pp. 1- 32, 48- 51(Available in Dossier).
ii) Sally, Razeen. (2002) ‘What is Classical Liberalism?’ In Razeen Sally. Classical Liberalism
and International Economic Order. Routledge: London, pp. 15-34. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DTVRsUzhZOFdEeVE).

b) Marxism
i) Mandel, E. (1979) An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory. pp. 11-84 (Downloadable
Link - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DeE5lMENJdlBOMnM).

c) Welfarism
i) Kersbergen, K.V. and Manow, P. (2009) Religion, Class Coalition and Welfare State.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapters 1 (Religion and the Western Welfare State
– The Theoretical Context), pp. 1-28. (Available in Dossier).
ii) The Excerpt version of above article is linked herewith. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DMEZ5MU5TcHEyYmM).

d) Neo-liberalism
Ritzer, George & Paul Dean. (Eds) (2015). ‘Neoliberalism: Roots, Principle, Criticisms, Neo-
Marxian Alternatives’ In Globalization: A Basic Text. Wiley Blackwell: UK, pp. 83-96.
(Downloadable Link –
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DRkNPR18ySTNXNTQ).

e) Gandhian Approach
i) Ghosh, B.N. (2007) Gandhian Political Economy: Principles, Practice and Policy. Ashgate
Publishing Limited, pp. 21- 88. (Available in Dossier).

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UNIT II. Capitalist Transformation

a. European Feudalism and Transition to Capitalism

i) The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism Author(s): Paul M. Sweezy and Maurice Dobb
Source: Science & Society, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1950), pp. 134-167. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DMDNELVRZUGdxSVU).

b. Transnational Corporations
i) Gilpin, R. & Jean M. Gilpin (2001). ‘The State and the Multinationals’. In Global Political
Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, pp. 278-304. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DaDl1REhzNE5jdUE).

c. World Trade Organization

i) Narlikar, Amrita (2005). The World Trade Organisation: A Very Short Introduction, Ch. 2 , 3
& 7. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DOGtBVk1zT2tnMlE).

d. Non-governmental Organizations (their role in development)

i) Prasad, K. (2000) NGOs and Social-economic Development Opportunities. New Delhi: Deep
& Deep, ch. 1, pp. 3-12. (Available in Dossier).
ii) Salamon, Lester M. (1994). ‘The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector: A Global “Associational
Revolution”’, Foreign Affairs, pp-1-9. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DMC1fVXlPUkt3U3M).

UNIT III. Issues in Development

a) Culture: Media and Television

i) Mackay, H. (2004) ‘The Globalization of Culture’ in Held, D. (ed.) A Globalizing
World? Culture, Economics and Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 44- 81.
(Downloadable Link –
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DN09PZlp6MEhQSzg).

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 ii) Tomlinson, J. (2004) ‘Cultural Imperialism’. In Lechner, F. J and Boli, J. (eds.) The
Globalization Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 366-375. (Downloadable Link-
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DazgyanJXZjljc3M).

b) Big Dams and Environmental Concerns

i) Khagram, Sanjeev. ‘Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development:

Transnational Civil Society Organizing around Big Dams’. In Lechner, F. J and Boli,
J. (eds.) The Globalization Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 519-525. (Downloadable
Link- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DazgyanJXZjljc3M).

ii) Singh, Satyajit. (1997). ‘Winners and Losers’. In Taming the Waters: The Political
Economy of Large Dams in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 182- 203.
(Available in Dossier).
iii) Yearly, Steven. (1996). ‘Environmental Issues and the Compression of the Globe’. In
Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe. SAGE
Publications: London. Pp. 37-61. (Downloadable Link-
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DWTdDS04tZ3BaN2M).

c) Military: Global Arms Industry and Arms Trade

i) Johnson, Chalmers. (2007). In The Politics of Globalization. Kesselman, M. Ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 330-339. (Available in Dossier).
ii) Johnson, Chalmers. (2013) . ‘The Economic Disaster that is Military Keynesianism:
Why the US has really gone broke’. Pp. 1-9. (Downloadable Link-
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DVXAyOHZqSV9tbk0).
d) Knowledge Systems
i) Marglin, Stephen. (1990) ‘Towards the Decolonisation of the Mind’ in Marglin, S. and
Marglin, F. A. (eds.) Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1- 28. (Available in Dossier).
ii) Marglin, Stephen. (N.D.) ‘Why is so Little Left of the Left?’ (Downloadable Link-
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DXzI5NGcwZk9FaHM).

UNIT IV. Globalization and Development Dilemmas

a) IT revolution and Debates on Sovereignty
i) Held, D. and McGrew, A. (eds.) (2000). The Global Transformations Reader.
Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 144-151, 164-178. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DS1FwTVpPUm1TX1E).

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 ii) Perritt, Henry H. Jr. (1998) "The Internet as a Threat to Sovereignty? Thoughts on the
Internet's Role in Strengthening National and Global Governance," Indiana Journal
of Global Legal Studies, pp. 425- 35. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DSV9xcFFMcXFSUUE).

b) Gender
i) Berkovitch, Nitza. (2004) ‘The Emergence and Tranformation of the International
Women’s Movements’ in L. Lechner, F. J and Boli, J. (eds.) The Globalization
Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, Ch. 39. Pp. 314-318. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DazgyanJXZjljc3M).
ii) ii) Steans, Jill. (2000) ‘Globalization and Gendered Inequality’. In Held, D. and
McGrew, A. (eds.), The Global Transformations Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press,
Ch. 39. Pp. 455-462. (Downloadable Link -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B76HK0FFoF8DS1FwTVpPUm1TX1E).

c) Racial and Ethnic Problems

i) Kesselman, M. and Krieger, J. (2006) Readings in Comparative Politics: Political
Challenges and Changing Agendas. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, pp. 243- 254
and 266- 276. (Available in Dossier).

(d) Migration
i) i) Arya, S. and Roy, A. (eds.) Poverty Gender and Migration. New Delhi: Sage, Ch. 1
Kesselman, M. (2007) The Politics of Globalization. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, pp. 450- 462. (Available in Dossier).
ii)Nayyar, Deepak. (ed.) (2002) Governing Globalization. Delhi: OUP, pp. 144- 176.
(Available in Dossier).

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