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\n\n\tPicture I: Chinese character for commerce on glass panel at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation,
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\n\n\tThis module traces the history of capitalism and global business. It considers how business enterprise shapes the modern world. It looks at economic actors, agents and institutions of historical change, their forms of organization, their strategies and culture, their relations with state and society and at how economic practices have been shaped by culture. Some of the themes covered will be: the business firm; the nineteenth century revolution in production; the rise of big business, the 'beauty' industry; the 'fashion business'; multinationals; state -business relationships, culture and capitalism and Wall Street today.
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\n\tLecture: Tuesday, 12 -2 p.m.
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\n\t ◦ 'The Puzzle of Capitalism'
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\n\tKenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence.
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\n\tSession III: Trading Companies: 'Peacefully working to conquer the world'
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\n\tAnn Carlos and S Nicholas, 'Giants of an earlier capitalism: the chartered trading companies as modern multinationals,' Business Histor Review, Vol 62, No 3 (Autumn 1988) (available on JSTOR)
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\n\tTirthankar Roy, The East India Company. The World's Most Powerful Corporation (Penguin, 2012). Introduction.
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\n\tSession IV: The First Industrial Revolution & the Factory System
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\n\tPeter Botticelli, 'British capitalism and the three Industrial Revolutions,' in Thomas McCraw (ed), Creating Modern Capitalism. How enterprenuers, companies and countries triumphed in three Industrial Revolutions (Harvard, 1997).
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\n\tJ Fulcher, Capitalism a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2004) Photocopied selections.
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\n\tSession V: Revolution in Production and transport & the rise of big business
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\n\n\t ◦ Railroads: the first 'modern' enterprise
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\n\t ◦ Carnegie, Rockefeller, Duke
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\n\tGlenn Porter, The Rise of Big Business (The American History Series, 2006), pp 31-48 and pp. 71-79. (E-Reserves)
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\n\n\tAlfred Chandler , ‘The emergence of managerial capitalism,’ Business History Review, Vol 58, No.4. (Winter, 1984) pp. 473-503 (JSTOR)
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\n\n\tSession VI: The 'Fashion Industry'
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\n\n\t◦ Styles, 'tastes' and business
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\n\n\tWhitney Walton, “To triumph before feminine taste”: Bourgeois women’s consumption and hand methods of production in mid-nineteenth century Paris’, Business History Review, Vol 60, No. 4, (Winter 1986) pp. 531-563
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\n\n\tDwight E Robinson, ‘The importance of fashions in taste to Business History: An introductory essay’, Business History Review, Vol 37 (Spring 1963) pp. 5-36
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\n\n\tSession VII: The 'Beauty' Business
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\n\t Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder
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\n\tKathy Peiss, 'Vital Industry and Women's Ventures: Conceptualising Gender in Twentieth Century Business History,' Business History Review, Vol 72, No. 2 (Summer 1998) (available on JSTOR)
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\n\tGeoffrey Jones, 'Blonde and Blue-Eyed? Globalising Beauty, 1945-1980,' Economic History Review, Vol 61, No. 1 (Fen 2008) (available on JSTOR)
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\n\n\tSession VIII: Business and Politics
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\n\tDwijendra Tripathi, Oxford History of Indian Business (Oxford, 2004) pp. 259-281
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\n\tSession IX: The Shipping Industry: Guest Lecture
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\n\tSession X: Cultures of Capitalism: 'Capitalism in new settings'
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\n\t ◦ Confucianism and Capitalism in East Asia
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\n\n\t‘Cultures of capitalism’ in Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong, Culture and economy : the shaping of capitalism in eastern
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\n\n\tRoger L. Janelli , Dawnhee Yim , ‘ The Mutual Constitution of Confucianism and Capitalism in
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\n\tJoyc Appleby, The Relentless Revolution. A History of Capitalism (Norton, 2010) Chapter 12
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\n\n\tSession XII: Finance and Global Crisis: Wall Street today
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\n\tTBA
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\n\tSession XIII: Business Today: Summing up
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\n\tOverview
\n\tAssessment would have four components:
\n\ta) one short paper (15%)
\n\tb) one essay (20%)
\n\tc) tutorial participation (15%) and (d) exam (50%)
\n\tShort Paper
\n\tStudents will be required to submit one short paper. Topics will be given in class. This component will be weighted at 15% of the overall performance.
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\n\tEssay
\n\tStudents would be required to carry out an individual essay on a topic of their choice which addresses one of the major themes of the course. Some topics will be suggested for students to choose from. Submission must be in hard copy. The project work would constitute 20% of the course requirements.
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\n\tTutorial Participation
\n\tStudents are expected to participate actively in discussions. There will be four tutorial sesssions. This will account for 10% of overall assessment.
\n\tFinal Exam
\n\tThe final exam will account for 50% of the total assessment.