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Module POWER, WEALTH, AND CORRUPTION

Module code: PH636
Credits: 10
Semester: 1
Department: PHILOSOPHY
International: No
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This module, team-taught by members of the three departments, provides an overview of the approaches by various thinkers to the question of how power and wealth are intertwined, and to the perennial problem of corruption as ‘the abuse of power by a public official for private gain’. The module will start with discussing some philosophical sources in the first part (taught by members of the Philosophy Department), followed by a critical discussion of topics such as globalization, power, legitimacy and the financial crisis in the second part (taught by members of the Sociology Department) and finishing with economic topics such as the financial crisis and its links to power and corruption or the links between democracy and power (taught by members of the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting). Further topics will include idealized forms of government vs. tyranny, economic and political explanations and consequences of corruption, as well as means of institutional and democratic control. This will open up further lines of enquiry using contemporary approaches in formal and normative political theory and economic theory.

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