Contemporary Economics and Social Relations

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
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 curricular unit will operate on a theoretical-practical basis: presentation of content, clarification of doubts and orientation of tasks by the teacher; preparation, presentation and discussion of tasks by students.

Learning Outcomes

The aim is to deepen the usable information on the background, the contexts of emergence and the evolution of economic and social policies of the EEC/EU from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It seeks to compare different readings, suggested by researchers in history and in other social sciences. The focus is on social and economic-financial aspects; in the European and world scenarios; in central, semi-peripheral and peripheral countries; in capitalist states and "real socialism" countries.

It will be possible to acquire skills for reconstitution and analysis, both on the "community integration" process and on the recent evolution of Europe and the World, above all in the social and economic spheres; recognition of the characteristics that make it possible to identify highly developed countries, capitalist and socialist countries.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Economic and social regionalities

2. Typology of political regimes

3. Typology of socio-economic production modes

4. Currents of economic thought

5. Europe and the World from the immediate post-World War II era to the present

6. Reconstruction, "Cold War" and "Providence States": the developed and intermediate development zones of the "capitalist bloc"

7. Rise and fall of “real socialisms”: the Stalinist model

8. Colonialism, independence and post-colonialism

9. The “Petroleum Crises” of the first half of the 1970s or the beginning of the hegemony of monetarism

10. The future of globalization since the “2008 Crisis”

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Cabral de Almeida Avelãs Nunes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Braudel, F. (1989). Gramática das civilizações. Editorial Teorema.

Chagnollaud, J.P. (1999). Relations internationales contemporaines. Éditions L'Harmattan.

Droz, B., & Rowley, A. (1988-1993). História do século XX. Publicações Dom Quixote.

Galbraith, J. K. (1995). Viagem através da economia do nosso século. Círculo de Leitores.

Hobsbawm, E. (1996). A era dos extremos. História breve do século XX (1914-1991). Ed. Presença.

Léon, P. (ed.) (1982). História económica e social do Mundo. Sá da Costa Editora.

NUNES, J.P.A. (2013). Da “Crise de 1929” à “Crise de 2008”. Reflexão historiográfica em torno do conceito de “Estado Providência”, Estudos do Século XX, nº 13, p. 243-255.

Valério, N., & NUNES, A.B. (1995). O crescimento económico moderno. Ed. Presença.