Compulsory on MSc European Political Economy, MPA European Public and Economic Policy and students following the MSc European Political Economy on the LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in European Studies. Optional on MSc European Studies (Research).
This course forms the core course of the MSc European Political Economy. It tries to understand how the relation between state and economy in both Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe has evolved over the post-war period. The course aims to provide students with both a deep analytical understanding of and a systematic treatment of empirical issues related to the evolution of the European political economy.
Topics include: State and economy in Europe; Economic theory and policy in Europe; The political economy of European integration; The political economy of reform in post-communist Europe; The political economy of EU enlargement; Monetary union; the creation of a Single Market; the Lisbon process; the democratic paradoxes of the EU.
Nicholas Barr (Ed.), Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Accession and Beyond (World Bank, 2005); Colin Crouch (Ed), After the Euro (Oxford University Press, 2000); Kenneth Dyson and Kevin Featherstone, The Road to Maastricht (Oxford University Press,1999); Barry Eichengreen, The European economy since 1945: coordinated capitalism and beyond (Princeton University Press, 2007); Paul De Grauwe, The Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press 2005, 6th ed.); Gérard Roland, Transition and Economics: politics, markets and firms (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 2000); Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark A. Pollack (Eeds.). Policy-making in the European Union (Oxford University Press 2005, 5th ed.); Stephen White, Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis, Developments in Central and East European Politics 3, (Palgrave, 2003).
