Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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History of Political Economy
10.0 ECTS
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Seminar on Social Science Research Techniques
10.0 ECTS
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Comparative Political Economy
10.0 ECTS
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Philosophy and Methodology of Political Economy
10.0 ECTS
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Applied Political Economy
10.0 ECTS
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Economy, Society, Governance
10.0 ECTS
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Research Seminar and Tutorial
5.0 ECTS
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Research Design and Academic Writing
14.0 ECTS
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Transdisciplinary Research Seminar
10.0 ECTS
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Research Seminar
12.0 ECTS
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History of Political Economy
At the end of the course, each student should have acquired the necessary competencies to:
1. Develop skills for critique, argumentation and autonomous judgement.
2. Develop skills for interpreting texts and seminal works of authors in light of the historical context and their relation with the main traditions and currents of political economy.
3. To develop skills for the identification of the origins and understanding of economic and political ideas present in contemporary controversies.
1. The main currents of political economy
1.a Classical liberalism and industrial capitalism: Smith, Ricardo, Mill
1.b The nature of modern capitalism: Marx, Durkheim e Weber
1.c Democracy and capitalism in the institutionalist tradition: Veblen, Commons, Polanyi, Kapp
1.d The Great Depression and the economic role of the state: Keynesianism - Keynes, Kalecki and Minsky - and Welfare Economics - Pigou and Stiglitz
1.e Decolonization and development: modernization theories - Rostow and Lewis -, structuralism - Myrdal, Nurske and Hirschman - and dependence theory - Furtado and Prebisch
1.f The neoliberal reaction to state interventionism in political economy: Hayek Friedman, Buchanan and Olson
2. Contemporary debates and their antecedents
2.a Growth and secular stagnation
2.b Money and monetary policy
2.c Technology, labour and employment
2.d Growth and sustainability
2.e Inequalities and growth
2.f Financialization, development and welfare
2.g Ethics and the market??
Assessment throughout the semester includes the following dimensions: a) attend sessions, do assigned readings and participate in the debate (30 per cent);
b) a written essay in the classroom on a question that specifies a previously prepared topic (from among the three topics indicated on the date given by the teaching team) (70 per cent). The list of bibliographical references and other resources used to prepare the topic must be handed to the teaching team on the date of the written essay in the classroom.
AI tools must be identified, clarifying how they were used and their role and relevance to the research developed.
An oral discussion of the written essay (in the classroom) could be required whenever this contributes to clarifying the assessment in progress.
There is no final written exam.
1. Caporaso, J. A. e Levine D. P. (1992), Theories of Political Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2. Kurz, H. and Riemer, J. (2016), Economic Thought: A Brief History, New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Milonakis, Dimitris and Ben Fine (2009), From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory, Routledge: London and New York.
4. Trigilia, C. (2002), Economic Sociology – State, Market and Society in Modern Capitalism, Oxford: Blackwell. 5. White, Lawrence (2012), The Clash of Economic Ideas. The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years, Cambridge University Press, pp. 99-125.
- Coase, Ronald H. (1960), “The Problem of Social Cost”, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. III: 1-44.
- Immerwahr, Daniel (2020), How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, London, Vintage.
- Kalecki, M., (1938), “The Determinants of Distribution of the National Income”, Econometrica, 6(2): 97-112.
- Marx, Karl (1859), Para a Crítica da Economia Política, Prefácio, Ed. Avante disponível em https://www.marxists.org/portugues/marx/1859/01/prefacio.htm.
- Minsky, Hyman P. (1992), “The Financial Instability Hypothesis”, Levy Economics Institute Working Paper no. 74.
- Myrdal, Gunnar (1971), Economic theory and underdeveloped regions, Harper Torchbooks
- Rutherford, Malcolm (2015), “Institutionalism and the Social Control of Business”, History of Political Economy, 47 (annual suppl.): 77-98.
-Smith, Adam (1993 [1776]), The Wealth of Nations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. -Spash, Clive L. (2021) “The contested conceptualisation of pollution in economics: Market failure or cost shifting success?”, Cahiers d’Économie Politique/Political Economy Papers 79 (1): 85-122.
-Wray, L. Randall (2004), The Credit Money and State Money Approaches (April 1, 2004). Available at SSRN.
Seminar on Social Science Research Techniques
At the end of the course unit, students should have acquired the skills to:
- design and plan their research project in methodological terms;
- choose the most appropriate methodology for their dissertation;
- apply specific research methodologies and techniques, taking into account the nature of the data.
1 – Qualitative and quantitative methodologies: distinction and complementarity
2 – Multivariate and econometric statistical analysis
3 – Comparative qualitative analysis
4 – Input-output analysis: description and applications
5 – Network analysis
6 – Ethnography, interviews and participatory methodologies
The assessment is based on two stages:
-the submission of two written essays, each worth 50%, associated with two of the six modules taught, with the choice focusing on two different types of methodology (one essay using a quantitative methodology and the other using a qualitative methodology).
-in a face-to-face discussion in a joint session (same time, same day for all modules) in which all students discuss the work submitted individually with the respective teacher. This part accounts for 20% of the final weighting of each essay. There is no final written exam."
9. Schreier, M. (2012). Qualitative Content Analysis in
8. Schneider, C.Q. & Wagemann, C. (2012) Set-theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Miller, R. and Blair, P. (2009) Input-Output Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Kadushin, C. (2012) Understanding Social networks : theories, concepts and findings, Cambridge
5. Greene, W.H. (2012) Econometric Analysis. New Jersey, Prentice Hall (7th Edition).
4. Goertz, G. & Mahoney, J. (2012) A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
3. Byrne, D. & Ragin, C. (eds.) (2009) The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods. Londres: SAGE.
2. Borgatti,S. P., Everett, M., Johnson, J.C., (2013), Analysing Social Networks, SAGE
1. Becker, H. S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research while You?re Doing It. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
19. Zuckerman, H. (1972). Interviewing an ultra-elite. The Public Opinion Quartely, 36, 159-175.
18. World Bank (1996). The World Bank Participation Sourcebook. Washington: Environmental Department.
17. Wooldridge, J.M. (2006) Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. USA, Thomson South-Western.
16. Winthereik, B. R. & Verran, H. (2012). Ethnographic stories as generalizations that intervene. Science Studies, 25(1), 37-51.
15. Wasserman, S., Faust, K., (1994) Social network analysis: methods and apllications, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press
14. Stake, R. (1995). The Art of Case-Study Research. Londres: Sage.
13. Scott, J., Social network analysis: a handbook, London, Sage, 2000
12. Rowe, G. & Frewer, L.J. (2004). Evaluating public participation exercises: a research agenda. Science, Technology and Human Values, 29(4), 512-556.
11. Ragin, C. ([1987] 1989) The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
10. Prell, C., (2012) Social Network Analysis : history, theory and methodology, SAGE
9. Poirier, J., Clapier-Valladon, S. & Raybaut, P. [1983] (1995). Histórias de Vida: Teoria e Prática. Oeiras: Celta.
8. Piette, A. (1996). Ethnographie de l?action: l?observation des details. Paris: Métaillié.
7. Marques, P. and Salavisa, I. (2016) ?Young People and Dualization in Europe: A Fuzzy Set Analysis?, Socio-Economic Review, 0(0): 1-26. Advance Access.
6. Knoke, D. e Yang,2008, S. Social Network Analysis, 2nd ed.,SAGE
5. Hardy, M. & Bryman, A. (2009) The Handbook of Data Analysis. London, Sage Publications.
4. Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle ( 2005) Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside (http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/ )
3. Glaser, B. G. & Strauss, A. [1967] (2002). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Londres: Aldine.
2. Fine, G. A. (1993). Ten lies of ethnography: moral dilemmas of field research. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, 167-294.
1. Deakin, H. & Wakefield, K. (2014). Skype interviews: reflections of two PhD researchers. Qualitative Research 14, 603-616.
Comparative Political Economy
Students will be able to:
- Explain key CPE concepts and apply them to concrete cases;
- Compare capitalist models and growth strategies;
- Critically assess advanced literature;
- Produce and defend analytical essays.
- Mixed lectures, student-led seminars and essay-centred assessment ensure alignment with these goals.
1. What is CPE?
2. Varieties of Capitalism
3. Growth models in CPE
4. State and business in East Asia
5. Political economy of China
6. Populism and CPE
7. Green transition and CPE
8. Democracy, inequality and capitalism
9. Dualisation and labour solidarity
Assessment throughout the semester
In-class discussion of texts (35%) — Groups of three defend opposing viewpoints (EPC & populism / EPC & the ecological crisis); followed by a debate and an informal, non-graded vote.
In-class written test (65%) — Three questions are provided; students answer one. Broad themes are announced in advance. Answers must be written in essay form, and only paper documents may be consulted.
The instructor reserves the right to hold an oral discussion of the written essay in class whenever this can clarify the ongoing assessment process.
This course unit does not include a final-exam option.
7. Streeck, W. (2013), Tempo Comprado ? A Crise Adiada do Capitalismo Democrático, Lisboa: Actual.
6. Rodrik, D. (2011), The Globalization Paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Ryner, M. e Cafruny, A. (2016), The European Union and Global Capitalism ? Origins, Development, Crisis, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
4. Hancké, B. (ed.) (2009), Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Hall, P. (2012), ?The Economics and Politics of the Euro Crisis?, German Politics, 21(4): 355-371.
2. Hay, C. (2011), ?Globalization Impact on States? in J. Ravenhill (ed.), Global Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 312-344.
1. Clift, B. (2014) Comparative Political Economy, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
28. van Apeldoorn, B. (2002). Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European In-tegration. Londres: Routledge.
27. Streeck, W. (2016), How Will Capitalism End ?, Londres: Verso.
26. Spolaore, E. (2013), ?What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 125-144.
25. Soederberg, S., Menz, G. e Cerny, P. (eds.) (2006), Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism, Hampshire: Pal-grave Macmillan.
24. Sapir, J. (2012), La démondialisation, Paris : Seuil.
23. Rodrigues, J., Santos, A. C. e Teles, N. (2016), ?Semi-Peripheral Financialisation?, Re-view of International Political Economy, 23(3): 480-510.
22. Rodrigues, J. e Reis, J. (2012), The Asymmetries of European Integration and the Crisis of Capitalism in Portugal. Competition and Change, 16, 188-205.
21. Reis, J., Rodrigues, J. Santos, A. C. e Teles, N. (2014), ?Compreender a Crise: a econo-mia portuguesa num quadro europeu desfavorável?, in J. Reis (ed.), A Economia Política do Retrocesso, Coimbra: Almedina, pp. 21-86.
20. Polanyi, K. (1944), A Grande Transformação, Lisboa: Edições 70, 2012.
19. Peck, J e Theodre, N. (2007), ?Variegated Capitalism?, Progress in Human Geography, 31(6): 731-772.
18. Molina, O. and Rhodes, M. (2007), ?The Political Economy of Adjustment in Mixed Market Economies: A Study of Spain and Italy?, In Hancke?, B., Rhodes, M., and Thatcher, M. (eds.), Beyond Varieties of Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 223-252.
17. Marques, P. and Salavisa, I. (2016), ?Young People and Dualization in Europe: A Fuzzy Set Analysis?, Socio-Economic Review, 0(0): 1-26. Advance Access.
16. Lapavitsas, C., Kaltenbrunner, A., Lindo, D., Michell, J., Painceira, J.P., Pires, E., Powell, J., Stenfors, A., Teles, N. e Vatikiotis, L. (2011), Crisis in the Eurozone, Londres: Verso.
15. Ingham, G. (2009), Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press.
14. Ingham, G. (2004), The Nature of Money: New Directions in Political Economy, Cambridge: Polity Press.
13. Höpner, M. e Schäfer, A. (2012), ?Embeddedness and Regional Integration: Waiting for Polanyi in a Hayekian Setting?, International Organization, 66: 429-455.
12. Holman, O. (2004), ?Asymmetrical Regulation and Multidimensional Governance in the European Union?, Review of International Political Economy, 11: 714-735.
11. Hall, P. e Soskice, D. (eds.) (2001), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Frieden, J. (2006), Global Capitalism. Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century, Nova Iorque: Norton.
9. De Grauwe, P. (2013), ?The Political Economy of the Euro?, Annual Review of Political Science, 9: 1-18.
8. Chang, H. J. (2002), Kicking Away the Ladder?Development Strategy in Historical Per-spective, Londres: Anthem Press.
7. Caporaso, J. e Tarrow, S. (2009), ?Polanyi in Brussels: Supranational Institutions and the Transnational Embedding of Markets?, International Organization, 63(4): 593-620.
6. Boyer, R. (2005), ?How and Why Capitalisms Differ?, Economy and Society, 34(4): 509-557.
5. Varieties in Capitalism?, New Political Economy, 16(4): 481-500.
4. Bruff, I. (2011), ?What about the Elephant in the Room? Varieties of Capitalism,
3. Bairoch, P. (2011), Mitos e Paradoxos da História Económica, Lisboa: Terramar.
2. Arrighi, G. (2009), The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, Londres: Verso.
1. Amable, B. (2009) ?Structural Reforms in Europe and the (in)coherence of institutions?, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25(1): 17-39
Philosophy and Methodology of Political Economy
Guided reading, critical analysis of selected texts (provided by the teaching team) and collective discussion
in seminars are essential and therefore valued as a fundamental component of the teaching-learning
process in order to strengthening and densifying knowledge as well as for the development of capacities for
reflection, critical analysis and debate of ideas, argumentation, appraisal of different positions and
formulation of relevant personal research projects.
1. Between the philosophy/theory of science and practice: the relevance of methodological awareness
2. Contributions of philosophy/theory of science
a. The philosophy and history of science
b. Sociology of science/scientific knowledge and social constructivism
c. Rhetoric, postmodernism and pluralism
d. Feminist Epistemology and Feminist Political Economy
e. Political economy and interdisciplinarity
e. Ontology and Critical Realism
3. Methodological controversies in Political Economy
a. Theory vs. History
b. Mathematics, formalism and modeling
c. Science and values
4. Economy, science and politics
a. Science and Power
b. Objectivity and technical expertise
5. The objectification of complexity in the social sciences
a. Social inequalities, dimensions and indicators
b. Intensive methodologies, theory and practice
c. Subjectivities, profiles and temporal categories
- Class participation, which consists of collective discussion of texts made available by teh teaching staff (25%)
- Written test consisting of two questions on two different topics, which will be selected by the student among four proposed on the program topics; the test is carried out in person in a session dedicated for this purpose, with the possibility of consulting materials authorized by the academic staff (75%).
There is no final written exam.
Boumans, Marcel & Davis, John (2010), Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Harding, Sandra (1991), Whose Science? Whose knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Lawson, Tony (1997), Economics as Reality, London: Routledge.
McCloskey, Deirdre N. (1998), The Rhetoric of Economics, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Milonakis, Dimitris & Fine, Ben (2009), From political economy to economics: Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory, London: Routledge.
Pombo, Olga; Gärtner, Klaus & Jesuíno, Jorge (2023), Theory and Practice in the Interdisciplinary Production and Reproduction of Scientific Knowledge: ID in the XXI Century, Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Sayer, Andrew (2000), Realism and Social Science, London: Sage.
Bernstein, Jay Hillel (2015), Transdisciplinarity: A Review of Its Origins, Development, and Current Issues, Journal of Research Practice, 11 (1), https://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/510.html
Bertaux, Daniel (2020), As Narrativas de Vida, Lisboa: Mundos Sociais.
Carmo, Renato Miguel (2021), Social inequalities: theories, concepts and problematics, SN Social Sciences 1(116), https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00134-5
Carmo, Renato Miguel & d'Avelar, Maria Madalena (2021), “The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects”, Current Sociology 69(5), 742-760 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120986222
Carmo, Renato Miguel do; Caleiras, Jorge; Roque, Isabel & Assis, Rodrigo Vieira de (2023), O Mundo do Trabalho a Partir de Baixo: Retratos e Percursos, Lisboa: Mundos Sociais.
Coelho, Sandra Lima & Marcelo, Gonçalo (2019), Ética, Economia e Sociedade: Questões Cruzadas, Porto: Universidade Católica Editora.
Graça, João Carlos; Caiado, Jorge & Gomes Correia, Rita (2020), “On the values and attitudes of economics students in Portugal”, Revista de Sociologia e Política, v. 30, e021, Dezembro, pp. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-98732230e021
Grimer-Solem, Erik & Romani, Roberto (1998), “The Historical School, 1870-1900: A Cross-National Reassessment”, History of European Ideas, 24 (4-5), pp. 267-299, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-6599(99)00005-4
Hands, Wade Hands (2001), Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Haro, Fernando Ampudia de (2013), “’Se não cuidarmos de nós, ninguém cuidará’: Autoajuda financeira e racionalidade política neoliberal”, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 101, Setembro, pp. 111-134, https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.5386
Louçã, Francisco (1997), Turbulência na Economia: Uma Abordagem Evolucionista dos Ciclos e da Complexidade em Processos Históricos, Porto: Afrontamento.
Reiss, Julian (2013), Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction, London: Routledge.
Roncaglia, Alessandro (2017), “The economist as an expert: a prince, a servant or a citizen?” (disponível em: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-economist-as-an-expert-a-prince-a-servant-or-a-citizen)
Applied Political Economy
1.Enable students for the theoretical mapping of conceptions about the role of the State in the post-war economy.
2.Enable students to identify and characterize the main historical processes that shaped the contemporary Political Economy.
3.Provide instruments for the analysis of the sectoral specificities, national and regional varieties of the various systems of provision.
4.To enable students to analyse systems of provision on the basis of a methodology that integrates multiple institutional dimensions and their articulations.
5.To enable students to critically analyse the trajectory of systems of provision in Portugal, articulating the international sphere where they integrate with their historical and contextual specificities.????
1. The State and the Economy in the post-war period
-The building-up of various welfare regimes: from Bismarck to Beveridge.
-The Great Depression and the debate on public policies: macroeconomic management and industrial policy.
-The resurgence of liberalism in the post-war period: Thatcher and Reagan.
-Financial and economic integration: from "Bretton Woods" to the Great Recession.
2. Reconfiguration of Systems of Provision
-The new monetary regime (from the reliance on central banks to the deregulation of banks).
-Reconfiguration of public investment regimes (the Public-Private Partnership models).
-Transformations of employment policies and ways of organizing labour markets.
-Tax system and redistribution.
-Corporatization and privatization of public services.
3 Analysis of case studies
-Social Security: pensions systems and social policy.
-Health: the diffused borders between the public and the private.
-Public utilities: Water, electricity, telecommunications, transport.
The evaluation will have three components:
A) participation in the classroom, demonstration of knowledge of the bibliography (25%)
B) presentation of a topic or a case study in class (25%),
C) paper on the subject of the course (50%).
5. Orenstein, M.A. (Ed.) (2008). Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk. Columbia University Press / SSRC Books.
4. Rodrigues, J.; Santos, A.C. & Teles, N. (2016). A Financeirização do Capitalismo em Portugal. Actual Editora.
3. Mirowski, P. (2013). Never let a serious crisis go to waste: How neoliberalism survived the financial meltdown. Verso Books.
2. Maurin, É. (2009). La peur du déclassement: une sociologie des récessions. Paris: Seuil.
1. Kuhnle, S.; Sander, A. (2010). The Emergence of the Western Welfare State. In Castles, F. G.; Leibfried, S.; Lewis, J.; Obinger, H.; Pierson, C. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford Unversity Press.
21. Wolf, M. (2015). As Mudanças e os Choques. Clube do Autor: Lisboa.
20. van der Wel, K. A., & Halvorsen, K. (2015). ?The bigger the worse? A comparative study of the welfare state and employment commitment?. Work, employment and society, 29(1), 99-118.
19. Streeck, W. (2013). Tempo Comprado: A crise adiada do capitalismo democrático. Actual Editora: Lisboa.
18. Rodrigues, M.J. (1988). O sistema de emprego em Portugal: crise e mutações. Lisboa. Dom Quixote.
17. Orenstein, M.A. (2011). ?Pension privatization in crisis: Death or rebirth of a global policy trend?. International Social Security Review 64, 3, pp. 65-80.
16. Orenstein, M.A. (2013). ?Pension Privatization: Evolution of a Paradigm?. Governance 26, 2, pp. 259?281.
15. Maurin, É. (2009). La peur du déclassement: une sociologie des récessions. Paris: Seuil.
14. Mamede, R.P.; Lagoa, S.; Leão, L.; Barradas, R. (2016). ?The Long Boom and the Early Bust: The Portuguese Economy in the Era of Financialisation?. In E. Hein, D. Detzer and N. Dodig (eds.), Financialisation and the Financial and Economic Crises. Country Studies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
13. Lapavitsas, Costas (2013). Profitting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us. Verso Books.
12. Hacker, J.S. (2004). ?Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States?. American Political Science Review 98, 2, pp. 243-260.
11. Hacker, J.S. (2008). The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. Oxford University Press.
10. Goodin, R. E.; Headey, B.; Muffels, R. & Dirven, H.-J. (1999). The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge University Press.
9. Gallie, D., & Paugam, S. (Eds.). (2000). Welfare regimes and the experience of unemployment in Europe. OUP Oxford.
8. Galbraith, J. K., & Galbraith, J. K. (2009). The great crash 1929. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
7. Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). ?The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State?. In The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
6. Eichengreen, B. (2008). The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Princeton University Press: New Jersey.
5. Blyth, M. (2013). Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea. Oxford University Press.
4. Béland, D. & Orenstein, M. A. (2013). ?International Organizations as Policy Actors: An Ideational Approach?. Global Social Policy 13, 2, pp. 125-143.
3. Bayliss, K.; Fine, B. & Robertson, M. (2013). ?From Financialisation to Consumption: the System of Provision Approach Applied to Housing and Water?. FESSUD Working Paper Series, No 2.
2. Baldwin, P. (1990). The Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press.
1. Appelbaum, E. (2011). ?Macroeconomic policy, labour market institutions and employment outcomes?. Work, employment and society, 25(4), 596-610.
Economy, Society, Governance
1. Develop knowledge and analytical skills for a holistic understanding of economic, social and political processes.
2. Develop skills for critical reflection and discussion of epistemological and conceptual fundamentals and for learning to use the analytical tools related to the study of the structure and the dynamic of economic, social and political systems, their evolution and the deliberations that enacted them.
3. Develop skills for critical reflection and discussion of epistemological and conceptual fundamentals related to the analysis of the different modes of action, instrumental and non-instrumental, and the different substantive and formalist perspectives of rationality.
4. Develop skills for analyzing different modes of coordination and the mutual interactions that established between the State, markets, organizations, community.
5. Develop skills for critical reflection, argumentation and autonomous judgement.
1. Ideas, Interests, and Institutions (III): Institutionalist Political Economy
2. III: Marxist Political Economy
3. III: Keynesian Political Economy
4. III: Nationalist Political Economy
5. Neoliberal III: The Austrian Contribution
6. Neoliberal III: The Ordoliberal Contribution
7. Neoliberal III: The Contribution of Public Choice Theory
8. Post-Neoliberal III: The Question of Property
9. Post-Neoliberal III: The Role of Institutional Imagination
10. Post-Neoliberal III: Currency and Central Banks
11. Political Economy and Economic History: Welfare States, Democracy, and Inequalities
12. Political Economy and Economic History: Corporatism in Portugal
13. Political Economy and Economic History: Democracy in Portugal
14. Thinking Like a Political Economist: History and Theory of Capitalism
The assessment includes two dimensions: a) reading the supporting literature and participating in the discussion (30%); b) written essay (70%).
The assessment for this course does not include a final written exam.
The main assessment instrument, the individual essay, is part of the defined teaching methodologies.
Best, Jacqueline (2024), “Central banks' knowledge controversies”, New Political Economy, 29(6): 857-871.
Commons, John (1931), “Institutional Economics”, American Economic Review, 21(4): 641-658.
Garrido, Álvaro (2018), Queremos uma Economia Nova. Estado Novo e Corporativismo, Lisboa: Temas & Debates.
Hayek, Friedrich (1945), “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, American Economic Review, 35(5): 519-530.
Jessop, Bob (2012), “The State”, in B. Fine, A. Saad-Filho, M. Boffo (coords.), The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Keynes, John Maynard (1937), “The General Theory of Employment”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 51: 209-223.
Piketty, Thomas (2014), O Capital no Século XXI, Lisboa: Temas e Debates
Reis, José (2018), A Economia Portuguesa: Formas de economia política numa periferia persistente (1960-2017), Coimbra: Almedina.
Rodrigues, João (2022), O neoliberalismo não é um slogan – Uma história de ideias poderosas, Lisboa: Tinta da China.
Bresser-Pereira, Luís Carlos (2018), “Nacionalismo econômico e desenvolvimentismo”, Economia e Sociedade, 27(3): 853-874.
Carstensen, Martin B. and Vivien A. Schmidt (2024), “Ideational robustness of economic ideas inaction: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis”, Policy and Society, 43(2): 173–188.
Rodrik, Dani (2013), “Who Needs the Nation-State?”, Economic Geography, 89(1): 1-19.
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Recommended optative
Optional courses will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrollments.
1st semester
00961 | Public Policy Research: the Comparative Method (ESPP | PP)
03377 | Economic Sociology (Di) (ESPP | Soc)
03378 | Theories of Modernity and Development (ECSH | EconP)
03379 | Development Policy and Politics (ECSH | EconP)
03380 | Factors of Economic Development (ESPP | His)
03381 | Applied Econometric of Public Policy (IBS | Ecot)
03384 | Industrial, Innovation and Research Policy (ECSH | EconP)
03385 | City and Citizenship: Contemporary Perspectives (ESPP | Soc)
03386 | Urbanism, Territoriality and Public Space (ESPP | Soc)
03387 | Geopolitics of Peace and Conflict (ESPP | RI)
Monetary and Financial Political Economy (UC)