Undergraduate - UnitATS3283 - Sharing prosperity

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Clayton First semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Elissa Sutherland

Notes

Previously coded GES3750

Synopsis

Central to our approach in this unit is a focus on social equity within the limits of a finite planet. Work, markets, trade, food production and distribution, patterns of consumption and aid as well as the role of transnational corporations, all are topics covered that enable us to better understand social, economic and environmental disparity in a post neo-liberal era. Sharing prosperity is a unit for students wanting to understand how social inequality is produced and who want to investigate alternative paradigms that could more effectively enable better distributive and non-distributive forms of social, environmental and economic justice.

Outcomes

Students successfully completing this subject will demonstrate the following skills and capacities:

Knowledge of key measures of prosperity operating at a variety of scales including GDP, comparative advantage, profit and turnover, as well as more qualitative measures such as social well-being, social capital, sustainability, innovation and creativity indexes;
Understanding of the disparate patterns of: work, food production and distribution, consumption, trade and aid, and the key role played by institutions;
Knowledge of market, state-led and gift economy mechanisms for distributive and non-distributive forms of social and environmental justice;
A critical understanding of the social nature and finite limits of 'economy';
Sound written expression, demonstrating an ability to critically analyse text, film and other data;
Sound interpretation of graphs and maps.