This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students. Available only to fourth-year PPE students.
This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students. Available only to fourth-year PPE students.
10 hours of lectures, 10 hours of seminars and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures, 10 hours of seminars and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of workshops in the ST. The lecture will set out key ideas. It will present theories and findings from the three disciplines relevant to the policy issue being studied in that week. The seminar, which is attended by all students together and run by the lecturer, will feature full-group discussion based on student questions posted on the Forum beforehand; it will also feature some Q&A with invited experts and student team presentations. This will be followed by small-group classes in which further questions relating to the material are discussed.
Students will be expected to produce 2 essays and 1 exercise in the MT and LT. Students will write two 1,500-word formative essays Students will be able to choose between joining a team presentation or becoming student editors. In the former case, they will have feedback meetings on a draft presentation; in the latter case they will give formative feedback on two papers which will be discussed in an editors' meeting.
D. Hausman, M. McPherson and D. Satz,?Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy.?Cambridge University Press, revised edition, 2016. A. Oliver (ed.)?Behavioural Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2013. L. Bovens, "The Ethics of?Nudge."?In?Preference Change.?Theory and Decision Library?42 (2009): 207-219. L. Wenar. Blood Oil. Oxford University Press, 2015. J. Fern?ndez-Huertas Moraga & H. Rapoport. "Tradable immigration quotas. Journal of Public Economics 115 (2014) 94?108. D. Halliday. Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath. Oxford University Press, 2018. L. Kofi Bright. ``On Fraud." in Philosophical Studies Vol. 174 (2017); 291-310. M. Fleurbaey and A. Voorhoeve "Decide as You Would with Full Information! An Argument against ex ante Pareto."? In Nir Eyal, Samia Hurst, Ole Norheim, and Dan Wikler (eds.), Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics. Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 113-128. An extensive list of required and further readings will be available on Moodle.
Exam (40%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (40%, 2000 words) in the ST. Exercise (10%) in the LT. Class participation (10%). For the exercise, students will choose between a summative team presentation and becoming a student editor.