Intro & Overview - Intro to Political Economy, Lecture1
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2016
- sites.duke.edu/intrope/
Michael Munger is Professor of Political Science and Director of the PPE Certificate Program at Duke University.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Introduction to Political Economy is a self-contained and nontechnical overview of the intellectual history of political economy, the logic of microeconomics, and the definitions used in macroeconomics. It introduces the notion of a political economy, emphasizing the moral and ethical problems that markets solve, and fail to solve.
LECTURE OVERVIEW:
I, Pencil (Leonard Read) No one knows enough to do anything. We all depend on other people for almost everything we need.
Some of that is provided by the state (defense, police). But most is provided by markets, without our thinking about it. Example
is simple: a pencil. No one, no one in the whole world, knows how to make a pencil.
2. What is Seen and What is Unseen (Frederic Bastiat). The broken window fallacy. Does destruction create jobs? What is the
real value of something? The answer is opportunity cost, so destruction does not create jobs, or growth. The problem is that
we SEE the jobs "created" by the broken window, but we don't see the opportunity cost of those resources. If this were not true,
then the President should commission gangs to go around breaking windows and burning cars, because that would create jobs.
3. The Candlemakers’ Petition (Frederic Bastiat) An amusing parable from 19th century France. If we believe that the way to create jobs is to make things more expensive, then just think of how many jobs would be created if we could block the sun! We would need heat, and light, and a lot of people would be employed providing those things. But that is nonsense, because the sun is free and all those things are expensive. The point is not to create jobs, and make things more expensive. The goal should be to take care of consumers, and always make things cheaper and better. Protecting producers is a sucker's bet, but that is very tempting for the state because producers are more politically powerful than consumers, as we will see in this course.
READINGS:
Bastiat, Frederic, Essays, What is Seen and Not Seen
-- Sections 1-2, paragraphs 1.1-1.36
-- Section 6, paragraphs 1.95-1.125
-- (www.econlib.org/library/Bastia... )
Bastiat, F. Economic Sophisms,
-- Chapter 7, “A Candlemakers’ Petition”
-- Chapter 8, “Differential Tariffs”
-- (www.econlib.org/library/Bastia... )
Read, Leonard, “I, Pencil” (LINK: www.econlib.org/library/Essays... )
Video: Pickles (www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?i... )
Stocks, the Stock Market, & the Basics of Trading
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The point I want to make is that his lecture leads us to think ourselves about economic mechanisms and consequences by lots of examples, accurate questions and excellent pronounciation.
Here in Korea, most professors write something on the balckboard and say "hey guys, the history of economics is.... we have had lots of great thinkers like Adam Smith , Keynes.....
some students going to sleep and doing other works..
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A charismatic way of lecturing embellished with humour and wit... Nice voice tone...
Thank you for making this lecture available.
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Michael Curtis "Mike" Munger is an economist and a former chair of the political science department at Duke University, where he continues to teach political science, public policy, and economics. He is a prolific writer, and his book Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices is now a standard work in the field of policy analysis. In 2008 he was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina.
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Another excellent book I would recommend is “Winner Take All Politics” by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, economists from Cornel I think. This book has facts and data about political economy. But I’m reading everything this video recommends too.
Obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and my Juris Doctor Degree. I've always hated my Economics subjects, that is, until I wrote my thesis for law school. I had a hard time defending the "policy" I created until a friend of mine who majored in Political Economy fixed everything that was wrong and lacking in my policy. Now I want to study PE too.
i don't mean to digress from the main point but i love the intro beat fr
Thank you for the course . I believe it’s a big benefit for mankind. We need to understand before we can repair. I will watch all the videos now. I will research more but I disagree with and don’t understand why you would say consumers don’t want competition. I think they want fair , not abusive, practices.....EDIT ... I watched again and think you say PRODUCERS don't want competition? Anyone feel free to correct me.
Thanks
Let's see if I can transfer next fall!
I am a science student, but have strong love for politics!
Hi, thanks for posting these! where can I get the slides for these lectures?
Thanks for asking that question. Right now, only the outlines and further readings are available online here - sites.duke.edu/intrope/
But offering the slides on that website may be a good idea too, thanks for the suggestion, stay tuned...,
Thanks! I think these are really high-quality lectures. Having the slides would be immensely helpful!
A fair question is whether the stock market is governed by any fundamentals other than the greater fool theory. Is is not amazing that people purchase shares of stock in companies that do not distribute dividends to shareholders out of profits. How is it that the corporate executives receives huge bonuses when companies are experiencing losses and, often, declining "market" value of the company's shares of stock.
Edward Dodson Abusive Capitalism, that’s why. People with power control regulations and the media. That’s what this course is about, I hope.
@@waynelast1685 For my money, the best book on the subject was written by the American Henry George, "The Science of Political Economy," published in 1898.
@@nthperson I’ll check it out. Another book is “Winner Take All Politics” by Hacker and Pierson
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Is there any caption of this lecture?
The Fifth Element. Yes, that silly action movie. It's actually a very, very well done movie but that's besides the point. There is a scene in which the antagonist makes the broken window parable, albeit with a broken highball glass cup. Evil is often the foolishness you do when you look too closely, and do not see what is around you.
Can we talk about the political and economic state of the world
conflicting material class could be never ended and issued a nightmare of all technology student. a counseling of reconciliation between father and son should be polite in a practice of this political method.
That's Ferdinand!
When you offer some product make adiction on the consumers they keep buying without a purpuse.
When we destroy resources we are worse off than preserving stuff . Pretty straightforward.
How about natural capital ? Natural resources.
My man's got salsman in his name, he ought to be selling it.
destruction create prosperity for the one planning it, it is not a fallacy for them.
7:21 that does not follow from that. following from that logic would be to continuesly employ ppl in areas where we are pretty certain that the produced commodity will be used in the future (railways, houses, even pencils). creating (potential) prosperity for the future while circulating the money and strenghening the economy. this is also perfectly in line with what keynesian economics or the MMT would prescribe BUT would obviously lend itself even more to a planned economy
12:55 yes its absurd. still happens with food and water tho..
This was very informative as a first year polisci student, but the point about Keynesian economic theory being a manifestation of the broken window fallacy doesn't make total sense to me. The way I understand it, Keynesian theory is a framework to respond to crisis, not necessarily a vehicle to create crisis to drive responses. Is the lecturer insinuating that Keynesian theory encourages crisis to trigger government response? Because I would argue that doesn't fit the broader Keynesian philosophy, which just states that government intervention in the economy should be malleable based on current circumstances.
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name of the lecturer, please?
Dr. Michael Munger
Give me an octopus and a feather and I can make you a pen, though.
8:10 hasn't he just proven that it doesn't matter if the window is broken or not? Nonetheless, the shopkeeper is going to be spending money which creates income opportunity to the person receiving the payment. I must have missed something here. At the end he made it seem like the second scenario is better than the first, when there is no difference from my perspective.
I thought the same thing! They seem to cancel one another out because either way, money is spent and jobs are created. The only benefit to the second scenario is that the shopkeeper doesn’t have to deal with the stress of a broken window.
Then again, destruction is never a good thing, so it does make sense what the man in the video was saying. You can still spend money and create jobs without breaking the window.
So if it's socially destructive not to destruct individual property, you can make the argument that not destroying property is morally corrupt and selfish.
Damn, tough crowd huh?
Your claim at the end is that one action consumers want is to create and protect monopolies? That is not my understanding and I have to disagree strongly. Consumers know the benefits of competition but want a fair playing field. Your other points in the video are very good however.
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Who here is majoring in PE at Berkeley, not sure what this major is even so they're here trying to learn more?....just me?
7:22 lmao, this is quite literally *exactly* what the United States military and American contractors did in Iraq.
the broken window fallacy...lol...both outcomes are the same...minus or plus a window
The plus or minus the window is the difference. Without the broken window, there is no need to fix it, therefore saving the individual the time and resources to replace it. This allows those funds to be allocated elsewhere.
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So Duke is calling this Political Science, yet the professor has a slide up saying Intro to Political Economy….. well the field of Economics was ORIGINALLY Political Economy ….. so is this Econ 101 then?
You can recycle, rebuilt, construct without destrution, when the glass has no utility chamge it the place, recycle, but no need destroy utilities which has no way to recycle, but a plastic bottle you can melty to make more plastic, you right we gain nothing with intentionally destruction but we can find a way to serve society constructing, recycle, changing, reparing and so so cheap products no longer has long life of using so learn how to recycle them, export to countries which needs, such as eletronics, what they give away in USA they use in Africa.
are u teaching university students or 5 year olds? that was quite boring...
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