State, Law and the Economy I

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• To get a better understanding of how economic principles are used to make collective decisions.
• The role of states in fostering collective decision-making has reduced violence and increased human welfare.
• How economic ideas, such as well-defined property rights, rule-based processes, voting procedures, and so on, can be used to address problems and conflicts.
• The use of social choice theory to shed light on the liberal and populist interpretations of voting, as well as its connections to conceptions of liberty and democracy.
• Learn how genuine politics can be understood as the art of manipulation or the use of heresthetics to attain political goals.

Syllabus:

1. Some Methodological Issues and Collective Choice
2. Pure Public Goods and Coase Theorem
3. Violence and the Origins of the State and Wisdom of Philosophers
4. Two Concepts of Liberty, Theory of Social Choice and the Theory of Democracy
5. The Art of Political Manipulation