ECON 110 Comparative Economic Systems  Syllabus
Fall 2011
Class #7389
TTh, 12:30 – 1:50 PM
Room MD-303 (San Marcos Campus)

                                      

  A look at different countries and their economic systems (China, EU, Japan, Mexico and others)

Country Project   Country project individual   Format  Format2  

Power Points:  Oil     Globalization    Trade  Finance MNC's

     Chapter 1: Introduction

     

      Handout: Basics of an Economic System

 

      Handout: Goals for an Economic System

 

      Handout: Theoretical Market Capitalism

 

       Chapter 2:  Liberal Market Capitalism

 

       Chapter 3:  Marxism

 

       Chapter 4:  The Social Market Economy

 

       Chapter 5:  The Economy of the United Kingdom

 

       Handout:  Democratic Socialism

 

       Handout:  Data on the European Economies

 

       Chapter 6:  The Economy of Ireland

 

       Chapter 7:  The European Union

 

       Chapter 8:  Introduction to the Japanese Economy

 

       Chapter 9:  The Japanese Corporation and Industrial Relations

 

       Chapter 10: The Role of Government in the Japanese Economy and Japanese International Economic Relations

 

       Chapter 11: Conclusions About Asian Market Capitalism

 

       Chapter 12:  The Communist Economy of the Soviet Union

 

       Chapter 13:  The Communist Economy:  Reform and Collapse

 

       Chapter 14:  The Transition from Communism to Capitalism in Russia – Part I

 

       Chapter 15:  The Transition from Communism to Capitalism in Russia -- Concluded

 

       Chapter 16:  China:  An Historical Introduction

 

       Chapter 17:  Chinese Agriculture

 

       Chapter 18:  Chinese Urban Industry

 

       Chapter 19:  Chinese International Economic Relations

 

       Chapter 20:  Evaluation of the Chinese Economy

 

       Chapter 21:  Economic History of Mexico

 

       Chapter 22:  The Mexican Economy to 1970

 

       Chapter 23:  Mexican Populism  1970 to 1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

       Chapter 20:  China: Part V

 

       Chapter 21:  China:  Part VI

 

       Chapter 22:  Mexico:  Part I

 

       Chapter 23:  Mexico   Part II

 

       Chapter 24:  Mexico:  Part III

 

       Chapter 25:  Mexico: Part IV

 

       Chapter 26:  Mexico: Part V

 

       Chapter 27:  Mexico:  Part VI

 

       Chapter 28:  Mexico:  Part VII

 

       Chapter 29:  Mexico: Part VIII

 

       Chapter 30:  Mexico: Part IX  (Optional Reading)

 

       Chapter 31:  Mexico:  Part X  (Optional Reading)

 

       Chapter 32:  The Global Economy:  Part I

 

       Chapter 33:  The Global Economy:  Part II

 

        Comparative Economies

 

        My Lecture Notes for Class

 

         Class 1  January 22

        

         Class 2   January 29

 

         Class 3   February 5

 

         Class 4   February 12

 

         Class 5   February 19

 

         Class 6   February 26

 

         Class 7   March 4

 

         Class 8:  March 11

 

         Class 9:  March 18

 

         Class 10:  April 1

 

         Class 11:  April 8

    

         Class 12:  April 15

 

          Class 13:  April 22

 

          Class 14:  April 29

 

          Class 15:  May 6

 

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