​READINGS
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James Boyce: Political Economy of the Environment

Reading List:​
  • Boyce, James K. (2007) ‘Inequality and Environmental Protection,’ in Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles, eds., Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 314-348.
  • Boyce, James K. (2002) The Political Economy of the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ch. 2.
  • Boyce, James K. (2013) Economics, the Environment and Our Common Wealth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Ch. 9. 
  • Boyce, James K. (2016) 'Distributional Issues in Climate Policy: Air Quality Co-benefits and Carbon Rent.' In Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, G. Chichilnisky and A. Rezai, eds., forthcoming from Edward Elgar Press.
Sandra Halperin: State Formation

Reading List:​
  • Sandra Halperin, Re-Envisioning Global Development: a ‘Horizontal Perspective’ (London: Routledge , 2013), Chapters 2  (pp. 32-60), 3  (pp. 61-90), and 4 (pp. 91-116).
  • Charles Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 69-87.
  • Albert Hourani, Revolution in the Arab Middle East. In P.J. Valikiotes, ed. Revolution in the Arab Middle East and Other Case Studies (Totowa, N.J.: Rouman and Littlefield, 1972), pp. 65-72.
  • Mick Moore, Revenues, State Formation, and the Quality of Governance in Developing Countries. International Political Science Review (2004), Vol 25, No. 3, 297–319
  • Sandra Halperin, “The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy.” Third World Quarterly 26:7 (December 2005), 1135-1156.
  • Sandra Halperin, ‘Power to the People: nationally-embedded development and mass armies in the making of democracy’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37:3 (May 2009), 605-630. 
William Robinson: Imperialism

Reading List:​
  • V,I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
  • "Concerning the End of Capitalism," chapter 8 in Paul Frolich, Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas in Action, Pluto Press, 1972, pp.147-163. 
  • "The Political Economy of Imperialism: A Theoretical Outline," chapter 1 of D. Wadada Nabudere, Essays on the Theory and Practice of Imperialism, 1979, published by Onyx Press Ltd in London and Tanzania Publishing House in Dar Es Salaam, pp. 1-44.
  • William I. Robinson, "Beyond the Theory of Imperialism," chapter 3 in Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 99-127. 
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George DeMartino: Critique of Neoclassical Economics

Reading List:​
  • G. DeMartino, Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical Objections and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism
    • Preface, pp. ix-xi
    • Introduction, pp. 1-20 only
    • Part I, pp. 27-34
    • Chapter 1, pp. 35-52
  • G. DeMartino, 2015 “Harming Irreparably: On Neoliberalism, Kaldor-Hicks, and the Paretian Guarantee,” Review of Social Economy. 73 (4): 315-340.
  • An Introduction to Neoclassical Economics (Handout)
Dale Tomich: World Systems Theory

​Reading List:
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel. “A Theory of Economic History in Place of Economic Theory?” Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-century Paradigms, (Temple University Press, 1991): 257-265.
  • Arrighi, Giovanni. “Braudel, Capitalism, and the New Economic Sociology”. Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 24.1 (2001): 107–123.
  • Hopkins, Terence. “World-System Analysis: Methodological Issues”. Social Change in the Capitalist World Economy, (Sage, 1978): 199-217.
  • Tomich, Dale. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy 1830-1848 (SUNY Press, 2016) : 25-50.
  • Tomich, Dale. “Small Islands and Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, and Capitalist Modernity”. Social Science History 18.3 (1994): 339–358.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel. “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 16.4 (1974): 387–415.
Karen Pfeifer: Labor

​​Reading List:
Historical Materialism:
Engels, Friedrich, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, English translation 1892.

​The Labor Theory of Value:
Sweezy, Paul M., Theory of Capitalist Development,” NY: Monthly Review Press 1970.
  • Chap 4: “Surplus Value and Capitalism,” starts on p. 66 of 403
  • Chap 5: “Accumulation and the Reserve Army,” starts on p. 83 or 403

Applying Historical Materialist Analysis to Existing Capitalist Society:
McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich and David M. Kotz, “Introduction,” pp. 1-19, in Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich and David M. Kotz, eds., Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century, NY: Cambridge University Press 2010.

​Applying Historical Materialism and Labor Theory to Contemporary Middle East Society:
  • Pfeifer, Karen, “Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the Arab World: the Economies of Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait in the Regional System,” Chap 13 (pp. 309-353) in McDonough et al., op cit.
  • Beinin, Joel, “Egyptian Workers and January 25th: A Social Movement in Historical Context,” Social Resarch 79 (2), Summer 2012: 323-348​
Adam Hanieh: Class Formation

​Reading List:
General Theoretical Issues
  • Ollman, Bertell (2003). “Social Relations as Subject Matter”, Ch.2. in Dance of the Dialectic, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois).
  • McNally, David (2015). “The dialectics of unity and difference in the constitution of wage-labour: On internal relations and working-class formation” Capital & Class February 39: 131-146.
Race, Migration, Gender
  • Allen, Theodore W. (2001) On Roediger’s 'Wages of Whiteness'” (Revised Edition), Cultural Logic.
  • Ferguson, Susan and David McNally (2014). “Precarious Migrants: Gender, Race and the Social Reproduction of a Global Working Class”, Socialist Register, Volume 51.
  • Mezzadri, Alessandra (2016) “Class, gender and the sweatshop: on the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation”, Forthcoming in Third World Quarterly, special issue on ‘Class Dynamics’ (accepted version, please do not distribute).
Class Formation and the Middle East
  • Hanieh, Adam (2013) Lineages of Revolt: issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East, Ch.1. (Chicago: Haymarket Press).
  • Hanieh, Adam (2010) “Khaleeji-Capital: Class-Formation and Regional Integration in the Middle-East Gulf” Historical Materialism, 18 35–76.
Sayres Rudy and Max Ajl: Marx and Capital

​​Reading List:
Primary
From R. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. (Norton 1978).
  • “On the Jewish Question,” 26-46
  • “The German Ideology,” 147-175
  • “Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy” (Grundrisse), 221-261
  • Capital, 302-361
Case Study: The "Brenner Debate"
From T. H. Austin and C. H. E. Philpin, The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe (Cambridge 1985).
  • R. H. Hilton, “Introduction,” 1-9
  • Robert Brenner, “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, ” 10-63
  • M. M. Postan And John Hatcher, “Population and Class Relations in Feudal Society,” 64-78
  • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, “A Reply to Robert Brenner,” 101-106
  • Guy Bois, “Against the Neo-Malthusian Orthodoxy,” 107-118
Bob Jessop, “Preface,” “Marx and Engels on the State,” The Capitalist State: Marxist Theories and Methods (Robertson 1982), ch. 1.

Secondary [recommended, not "required"]
  • Bob Jessop, “State Monopoly Capitalism,” The Capitalist State, ch. 2.   
  • William Lazonick, “Karl Marx and Enclosures in England,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 6:1 (1974)
  • Duncan Foley, “On Reading Marx: Method,” Understanding Capital: Marx’s Economic Theory (Harvard 1986), chs. 1-3, pp. 1-48
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood, “Class as Process and Relationship,” Democracy against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (Cambridge 1995), 76-107
  • Robert Brenner, “The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism,” Brenner Debate, 213-327
Andrew Zimmerman: Rural/Agrarian Politics and Economies

​Reading List:
  • Letter of Vera Zasulich to Karl Marx, February 16, 1881.
  • Karl Marx reply to Vera Zasulich, Unsent First Draft, February/March 1881.
  • Karl Kautsky, The Agrarian Question, trans. Pete Burgess, 2 vols. (1899; London: Zwan, 1988), Introduction, ch. 6.
  • Mao Tse-tung, “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan,” in Selected Works, vol. 1 (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1965), 23–59.
  • Charu Mazumdar, “Develop Peasants' Class Struggle through Class Analysis, Investigation and Study,” Liberation, November 1968.
  • Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983; Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), introduction.
  • James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), preface and ch. 1.
  • Christine Pelzer White, “Everyday Resistance, Socialist Revolution and Rural Development: The Vietnamese Case,” The Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986): 49–63.