Contemporary Economics and Social Relations

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013295
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The class is theoretical-practical in nature: presentation of content, clarification of doubts and tasks assigned  by the teacher; presentation and discussion of comments and tasks by students.

Learning Outcomes

The goal of this class is to provide usable information about the background, context of the emergence and evolution of the EEC/EU since the end of World War II to the present day.  It seeks to compare different texts by researchers in history and other social sciences. It focuses attention on the ideological-political, economic and financial aspects; the European and global scenarios; the central, peripheral and semi-peripheral countries; in the capitalist states and "real socialism."

Students will acquire skills in the collection and processing of data, both about the process of "community integration", and about the recent developments in Europe and the world; recognition of distinguishing features and very underdeveloped nations, capitalist and socialist countries, different political regimes; contextualization of current phenomena such as "neoliberal globalization" and a possible "clash of civilizations".

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - The social and economic regionalities.

2 - Typology of political regimes and modes of production.

3 - Current economic thinking.

4 - Europe and the World of the immediate post-Second World War to the present.

5 - Reconstruction, the Cold War and the welfare state: the developed zones of the "capitalist bloc".

6 - The rise and fall of "real socialism": the Stalinist model.

7 - Colonialism, post-colonialism and independence: cycles of poverty, growth or development.

8 - The future of globalization.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Cabral de Almeida Avelãs Nunes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Final exam – and eventually oral exam– and critical review (compulsory tasks); informal participation in class, bibliographical-documental research assignments, organization of debates and study visits, etc (optional tasks).: 100.0%

Bibliography

ARACIL, Rafael e outros, El Mundo actual. De la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días, Barcelona, Ediciones Universitat de Barcelona, 1998.

BERSTEIN, Serge, Démocracies, régimes autoritaires et totalitarismes au XX siècle, Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1992.

BRAUDEL, Fernand, Gramática das civilizações, Lisboa, Editorial Teorema, 1989.

CHAGNOLLAUD, Jean-Paul, Relations internationales contemporaines, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1999.

DROZ, Bernard e ROWLEY, Anthony, História do século XX, 4 volumes, Lisboa, Publicações Dom Quixote, 1988-1993.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth, Viagem através da economia do nosso século, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995.

HOBSBAWM, Eric, A era dos extremos. História breve do século XX (1914-1991), Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1996.

LÉON, Pierre (dir.), História económica e social do Mundo, Lisboa, Sá da Costa Editora, 1982, vols. V e VI.

VALÉRIO, Nuno e NUNES, Ana Bela, O crescimento económico moderno, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1995.