Ethics and Economics - JPB338
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LNWeek1EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the First Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek10EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Tenth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek11EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Eleventh Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek2EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Second Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek3EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Third Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek4EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Fourth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek5EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Fifth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek6EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the SIxth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek7EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Seventh Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek8EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Eighth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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LNWeek9EE.pdf | Lecture Notes for the Ninth Week | doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc. |
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There are no required prerequisites for this course.
This course is interdisciplinary: different concepts from moral and political philosophy, methodology, social sciences, economics and finance are used for discussing many relevant topics. Used concepts are explained in lectures, relevant topics specified in the syllabus are discussed in seminars. This course is also part of the inter-university programme prg.ai Minor. It pools the best of AI education in Prague to provide students with a deeper and broader insight into the field of artificial intelligence. More information is available at https://prg.ai/minor/. Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (09.11.2023)
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By the end of this course students will be able to discuss different topics with understanding of relevant concepts from moral and political philosophy, methodology, social sciences, economics and finance. Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (03.09.2021)
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Lecture notes for each week will be accessible each week after the Friday online seminar. Required readings for each week are specified in the syllabus, homeworks are based on required readings.
Recommended videos: Harvard Justice course: justiceharvard.org Yale open course "The Moral Foundations of Politics": https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-118/lecture-1
Recommended Readings: Buchanan, James: The Limits of Liberty (Between Anarchy and Leviathan) Mappes, T.A., Zembaty J.S., DeGrazia, D.: Social Ethics - Morality and Social Policy. McGraw Hill 2012 Rachels, J., Rachels, S.: The Elements of Moral Philosophy. McGraw Hill 2015 Rachels, J., Rachels, S.: The Right Thing to Do. McGraw Hill 2015 Rosenberg, A: Philosophy of Social Science Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (27.08.2024)
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Both seminars and lectures are in the classroom 109, Opletalova building. "Virtual mobility" and "4EU+" students can attend both lectures and seminars online, upon request, in MS Teams. Online seminars are in different time than insite seminars,
Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (27.08.2024)
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Grading:
https://dl3.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=547 1st midterm test: November 1st, 2024 (the whole day) 2nd midterm test: November 29th, 2024 (the whole day) 3rd midterm test: January 3rd, 2025 (the whole day) Final tests will be on January 9th at 2:00 p.m., on January 16th at 2:00 p.m., on January 30th at 2:00 p,m, and on February 13th at 2:00 p.m. There are no retakes for midterm tests, you just lose the points. According to our study rules, you have two retakes for the final test. After summarizing all points, our standard grading scale will be applied: 0-50 (F), 51-60 (E), 61-70 (D), 71-80 (C), 81-90 (B), 91-100 (A) Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (11.10.2024)
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Week 1: Ethics as Practical Philosophy
Required Reading: Plato: The Republic. 2nd Book. (Can be found on web)
Week 2: Justice and Coordination
Required Reading: Alisdair MacIntyre: After Virtue. Chapter 14: "The Nature of the Virtues" (https://epistemh.pbworks.com/f/4.+Macintyre.pdf ) Optional Readings: http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/m6/nadelmann%20-%20the%20case%20for%20legalization.htm https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-wilson/against-the-legalization-of-drugs
Week 3: Utilitarianism and Justice
Required Reading: Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Moral and Legislation. Chapters 1-4. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html) Optional Readings: http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf
Week 4: Economics as a Social Science
Required Reading: Ludwig von Mises: Human Action. Introduction and Chapter I "Acting Man" (https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf ) Optional Readings: https://www.jefftk.com/rachels-2013-immorality-having-children.pdf http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/texts/425/Sen,%20PropertyHunger.pdf http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/living_on_a_lifeboat.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solution-to-world-poverty.html
Week 5: Neoclassical Synthesis, Postkeynesian Economics and Justice
Required Reading: David Hume: The Treatise of Human Nature. Book 3 “Morals”, Part 2 “Justice and injustice”, from 1 to 6 https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/hume1740book3.pdf Optional Readings: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/14.%20The%20Ethics%20of%20War%20and%20Peace.pdf https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1428085978JohnRawls.pdf
Week 6: Immanuel Kant, Psyche and Conscience
Required Reading: Immanuel Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace, Introduction, Section 1, Section 2. https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf Optional Readings: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2002/11/27/0000184966 http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1163&context=facpub
Week 7: Selfrealization
Required Reading: Friedrich August von Hayek: Law, Legislation and Liberty - Volume 1, Chapter 4 "The Changing Concept of Law" (https://libsa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/hayek-law-legislation-and-liberty.pdf ) Optional Readings: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5933&context=lalrev https://newrepublic.com/article/103297/for-better-or-worse-gay-straight-marriage
Week 8: Social Stability, Order and Liberty
Required Reading: John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Chapters 1 and 2. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html) Optional Readings: https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/
Week 9: Constitutional Economics
Required Reading: This time, it is about listening to James Buchanan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178aognlYHA Optional Readings: https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/singer.pdf https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/cohen.pdf
Week 10: Justice and Democracy
Required Reading: Jurgen Habermas: Between Facts and Norms - Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: Chapter 3.2 "Moral Norms and Legal Norms: On the Complementary Relation between Natural Law and Positive Law" (https://teddykw2.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/jc3bcrgen-habermas-between-facts-and-norms.pdf)
Week 11: Democratic Justice
Week 12: Ethics, People and Society
Optional Reading: CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conducts (just 2 pages) (please find on https://www.cfainstitute.org/pages/index.aspx under EthicsAndStandards) Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (04.12.2024)
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