This course is separated into two parts, sessions 2-7 are lectured by Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle, sessions 8-13 are lectured by Jürgen Essletzbichler.
The course is structured in a frontal lecture for all students to be held on Mondays, three student-led ‘seminars’ of 20 people each on Tuesdays. Each student is required to attend the Monday lecture and one seminar group, for a weekly total of 3 hours.
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Session 1, Course overview and introduction
Session 2, Capitalism, GDP and growth: Basics
Session 3, Commodities, money and capital accumulation (Marx)
Session 4, Production of space, development in the world system and global capitalism
Session 5, Technological and institutional change (Schumpeter and Veblen)
Session 6, Intellectual monopoly capitalism and the platform economy
Session 7, Mid-term exam
Session 8, The necessity and limits of growth: The economic lens
Session 9, Re-embedding economy in nature: The biophysical lens
Session 10, Affluence, domination and freedom: The social-political lens
Session 11, From limiting growth to the “Good life for all”
Session 12, Utopias, dystopias and multi-scalar transformation
Session 13, Final exam.