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If you submit your short-essay by the due date, then you will receive your mark and written feedback in sufficient time to enable you to reflect upon the feedback before you submit your major essay. It is hoped that this will provide guidance as to what areas of your writing and understanding of key concepts might be improved.

Your short-essay will be marked against the following criteria:

· Clarity of expression

· Development of an argument and use of supporting evidence to address the set topic

· Understanding of relevant concepts

· Correct use of citations

Required Reading

· Ian Bruff, ‘Overcoming the State/Market Dichotomy’, in Stuart Shields, Ian Bruff and Huw Macartney (eds) Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus (London: Palgrave, 2011): pp. 80-98.

Further Reading

· Ben Spies-Butcher, Joy Paton and Damien Cahill, Market Society: History, Theory, Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012): pp. 1-3.

Required Reading

· Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism A Longer View (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): Chapter 1 ‘The Separation of the “Economic” and the “Political” in Capitalism’.

Also available in: Ellen Meiksins Wood ‘The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism’, New Left Review (I), No. 127 (1981): 66-95.

Further Reading

· Charles Post (1982) ‘The American Road to Capitalism’, New Left Review, I/133: pp. 30-51.

· Jairus Banaji (2013) ‘The Fictions of Free Labour: Contract, Coercion and So-Called Unfree Labour’, Historical Materialism, 11(3): pp. 69-95.

· Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (London: Verso, 1999), Chapter 4.

· Sébastien Rioux, ‘The Fiction of Economic Coercion: Political Marxism and the Separation of Theory and History’, Historical Materialism, 21:4 (2013): 92-128.

· Larry Patriquin (ed), The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader (Leiden: Brill, 2012): ‘Chapter 1: Capitalism’.

· John Lie, ‘Visualizing the Invisible Hand: The Social Origins of 'Market Society' in England’, Politics and Society, 21:3 (1993).

Required Reading

· Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Beacon Press, 1950, Chapter 6: ‘The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land and money’.

· Matthew Watson, ‘The Great Transformation and progressive possibilities: The Political Limits of Polanyi’s Marxian History of Economic Ideas’, Economy and Society, 43:4 (2014): 603-25.

Further Reading

· Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: The limits of the market, Polity, London, 2010.

· Jamie Peck, Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labour Markets, The Guildford Press, New York, 1996, esp. Chapter 2.

· Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Beacon Press, 1950, Chapters 11 & 12.

· Chris Holden, ‘Decommodification and the Welfare State’, Political Studies Review 1(3), 2003, pp. 303-316.

· Ayşe Buğra and Kaan Ağartan (eds),  Reading Karl Polanyi for the twenty-first century: market economy as a political project, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007.

· Joy Paton (2010), ‘Labour as a (Fictitious) Commodity: Polanyi and the Capitalist ‘Market Economy’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review 21(1): 77-88.

Tips from Tutor

Havard reference style

Structure

Introduction, orientation a statement should be given. General and specific.

Thesis part, signpost, don’t give passive pastent, don’t restate, self retain. No this and that.

Outline, what each section will be have. Two to three main point. Self contained. Full stop then the second point. Best introduction matches.

Following the topic sentence, evidence critiques, to introduce the topic sentence and then this is important because... present pastence, don’t use one author to argue against others. Don’t argue one side, the counter evidence, argue both side and choose one. Prepare to deal with that, critique the evidence. Comment on that. Every point should have this.

Reporting verb list. They use different reporting verb to indicate different ideas.

Transition signals. To indicate similarities and dissimilarity ideas.

Hedging verb list. Perhaps maybe. Don’t use this in introduction. No “ I think”. I is okay, we in the context of society. Not like a team of people writing the article.

Conclusion Reflection.

Don’t post any unanswered questions in the essay. Try to contain the argument.

No need for subheadings.

General comments. Don’t use big words. Clear and simple. Don’t strike the tone. The point is to use the concept to critique. “Curious” is a good way to turn back and don’t use heavy language, inconsistent.

Grammar.

Specific

Don’t describe in details about the understanding of the article, do this through critique.

Roger. Reproduce the exact assumptions.

Additional readings can add to the essay. A couple more. Case study. Highlight the thing. Specific is good.