Master seminar

An organisational meeting and introduction to the topic takes place on 19. April 2016, 2 pm in RuW 4.202.

The seminar will take place from 19. to 26. June 2016 in Riezlern (Kleinwalsertal, Austria, Haus Bergkranz).

  seminar overview

  OLAT-course

  registration form

The number of participants is restricted to 20 due to the number of beds. Registration will take place at the organisational meeting.

You are required to confirm your registration, by submitting the signed registration form and a CV until the 22. April 2016 to Anastasia Biermann (a.biermann@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de). You can send a copy by email up front and hand in the original printed version at the chair (office hours Tue-Thu 13-19) or drop it into our postbox (RuW, postbox 70) until 27. April 2016. 

If the number of interested students exceeds the number of beds an additional short motivation statement (no more than 100 words) will be required, which would be announced at the organizational meeting. A selection will be made based on CV and motivation statement.

Withdrawal is possible only until the 27. April 2016.

The assignment of topics will take place on Tuesday, May 3rd, via email. Please contact your supervisor afterwards to discuss your topic.

Deadline for term paper:   10.06.16, 8 a.m.
Deadline for presentation and handout:   16.06.16, 10 a.m.

You will find some instructions for your term paper HERE.

Topics

Signs of rising inequality between persons, income classes and countries are hotly debated today. The very facts, their ethical evolution, the possibilities of countervailing policies are controversial. The seminar will deal with theories of income distribution from the classics to the postkeynesians, with the relationship between wealth and power, with distributional justice (Sen’s approach), with the effects of accumulation on distribution and with global aspects, in particular with the relationship between certain varieties of capitalism and inequality.

  List of topics

General reading list

• Garegnani, P. (1984). Value and Distribution in the Classical Economists and Marx. Oxford Economic Papers, 36, pp. 291–325.

General literature

• Blaug, M. (1999). Economic Theory in Retrospect (5th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Dobb, M. (1973). Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Foley, D. K., & Michl, T. R. (1999). Growth and Distribution. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Garegnani, P. (1984). Value and Distribution in the Classical Economists and Marx. Oxford Economic Papers, 36, pp. 291–325.
• Roncaglia, A. (2005). The wealth of ideas: a history of economic thought. Cambridge: Univ. Press.
• Sen, A. (1980). Equality of What? The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, I, 197–220.

  Literature by topic (preliminary)

Requirements

• 60% term paper
• 40% presentation & participation

Each partial requirement needs to be passed with a grade of 4.0 or better.