1. Introduction - Social & Political Philosophy - Richard Dien Winfield

The course will critically examine what the economy should be and what relation the economy should have to the state. The fundamental options of economic theory will be examined in connection with the fundamental options of normative social and political philosophy, all in order to conceive the just economy and its relation to the just state.

REQUIRED READINGS
Aristotle, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1996; ISBN-10: 0521484006)
Hegel, G. W. F., Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1991; ISBN: 0521348889)
Marx, Karl, Capital – Volume I (NY: Dover Publications, 2011; ISBN-10: 0486477487)
Caporaso, James A. & Levine, David P., Theories of Political Economy (NY: Cambridge U. Press, 1996; ISBN 0521425786)
De Soto, The Mystery of Capital (NY: Basic Books, 2000; ISBN-10: 0465016154)
Winfield, Richard Dien, The Just Economy (New York: Routledge, 1988), ISBN: 0415001854; 0415903424 (pbk.)
Winfield, Richard Dien, The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005), 432 pp.; ISBN: 1591023173
Xerox Selections: Heilbroner, Robert L., The Worldly Philosophers; Polanyi, Karl, Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations; Winfield, Richard Dien, “Should the Economy be Democratized?”; Hayek, Friedrich A., The Constitution of Liberty, Jonas, Hans, The Imperative of Responsibility; listed under PHIL 4210/6210 at Bel-Jean Copy-Print Center, 163 E. Broad St.