This course aims to answer to a complex and paradoxal question. How do political institutions affect economics (and economic growth)? And, to same extent, how does economics (and economic conditions) affect political decisions. In order to achieve that aim, it will intertwine the analysis of major thinkers in this field (e.g. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes...) and debates on the evolution of capitalism, neo-liberalism and globalisation.
In a nutshell, it will foster students' debate about different economic models and their relation to politics, as well as encourage them to think critically how several authors are still relevant today on the analysis they made of the world of wealth production and (re)distribution.