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POLIS 2107 - Passions and Interests: The History of Greed

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018

The course attempts to solve the puzzle of how greed was transformed from a Deadly Sin (avarice) to a cool virtue. How could Gordon Gecko manage seduce his audience so easily in the movie Wall Street with his 'Greed is Good' speech? How did we get from there to here? The course will canvas seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century responses to the emergence of market society and will trace the demise of classical, feudal and Renaissance idealism and the emerging 'bourgeois' mentality of the enlightenment era. The transformation of commercial activity from a base occupation to its culmination as a 'calling' is explored as part of an intellectual history of the legitimation of the idea of greed. This history will cover, among other things, an exploration of the following institutions, phenomena and ideas: self-interest; the division of labour; markets; luxury; the proper role of the state: liberalism and its critics; progress; virtue; classical communitarianism, anarchism, utilitarianism, classical political economy, the guaranteed basic income and the Grameen Bank. The course will conclude with a close study of the film Wall Street and a reflection on whether enlightened self-interest is enough to keep societies in motion. Featured thinkers include: Marcus Aurelius, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Mandeville, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, Hayek, Fukuyama, Singer and van Parjis.

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    Course Details
    Course Code POLIS 2107
    Course Passions and Interests: The History of Greed
    Coordinating Unit Politics and International Relations
    Term Semester 2
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 3 hours per week
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y
    Prerequisites At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study
    Incompatible POLI 2017, POLI 2107, POLI 3017
    Assessment Tutorial assessment 10%, Minor Essay 30%, Major Essay 60%
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Professor Lisa Hill

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    Required Resources
    A reading kit, containing the texts that need to be read prior to each tutorial discussion, will be available for purchase at the start of the course from the Image and Copy Centre.

    There is an extended reading list posted on myuni. Some extra articles for further reading will be posted online.

    Detailed Powerpoint slides for each lecture will be posted on myuni (usually prior to the lecture) as well as additional course material and readings.

    Chronology of Some Key Figures.
    Stoicism: 300 BC- 200 AD
    Epicurus c. 341–c. 270
    Gregory the Great: 540-604
    Niccolo Machiavelli: 1459-1517
    Thomas Hobbes: 1588-1679
    John Locke: 1632-1704
    Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury): 1671 to 1713.
    Bernard Mandeville: 1670-1733
    Francis Hutcheson: 1694-1746
    Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
    Jean Jacques Rousseau: 1712 – 1778
    Adam Ferguson: 1723-1816
    Adam Smith: 1723-1790
    John Stuart Mill: 1806-1873
    Karl Marx: 1818-1883
    Emile Durkheim: 1858-1917
    Max Weber: 1864-1920
    John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946
    Frederick von Hayek: 1899-1992
    Phillipe van Parijs 1951- F
    rancis Fukuyama: 1952-
    Grameen Bank: circa 1976.
    Wall Street: 1987
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    Online Learning
    Detailed powerpoint slides will be posted on myuniprior to each lecture.
    Additional course material will be posted on myuni.
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    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

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