Globalization and Contemporary Capitalism

Code: PGPS8836
Course: MA in Social Policy
Credits: 4
Hourly load: 60
Syllabus: Productive and financial globalization: the vision of the World Bank and the IMF; contemporary authors' interpretations of productive and financial globalization / globalization; contemporary capitalism and the composition of classes; neoliberalism and its theoretical bases; genesis and constitution of the credit system; finance capital, according to Hilferding; monetary capital and real capital; the financialization of the world economy; the recent capitalist crises; the contemporary world and Brazilian economy.