Morality and Markets

POLI30111 Morality and Markets 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 3 Stephen Hood Unit coordinator Politics 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 The course unit aims to: - Examine moral arguments relating to the functioning of markets; - Consider the different ways in which the use of markets may, in general terms, be justified or criticised; - Introduce students to a range of normative perspectives on the operation and appropriate extent of markets, and demonstrate how such ideas are deployed in political debate; - Provide a detailed assessment of a number of specifically troubling areas of exchange; - Develop students' philosophical reasoning abilities, ability to apply philosophical ideas, team-work skills and research abilities, oral and written skills. On completion of this unit successful students will be able to demonstrate: - An understanding of the main moral justifications and lines of critique of market exchange; - The ability to critically assess normative arguments relating to market institutions; - The ability to apply abstract philosophical arguments to real-world questions about the functioning of markets; - An understanding of how moral claims are used in political debate to justify or critique real-world markets; - Oral, teamwork, written, and research skills. This course will be taught on the basis of ten two-hour lectures and ten one-hour seminars. The lectures will comprise a mix of traditional lecture material, interactive question and answer sessions, and small tasks in break-out groups. Seminars will involve group discussions, consideration of particular case-studies and collaborative analysis of arguments. All students will be expected to have completed the required reading and to have made preparatory notes. 0 Other 100% 70% essay (3000 words),30% written assessment (1000 words) Y ' Anderson, E., 1992, Values in Ethics and Economics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. - Cohen, G. A., 2009, Why Not Socialism?, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. - Hayek, F.A. v., 1944, The Road to Serfdom, London: Routledge. - Olsaretti, S., 2004, Liberty, Desert and the Market: A Philosophical Study, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Nozick, R., 1974, Anarchy, State, And Utopia, New York: Basic Books. - Sandel, M. J., 2012, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, London: Allen Lane. - Satz, D., 2010, Why Some Things Should not be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 0 0 200