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Module content:

What can the livelihoods of people working at the margins –in informal settlements, rural & peri-urban markets, or illicit trades, tell us about prosperity? This module starts from the point of view that the best way to understand exclusion, poverty and inequality is to ask those who are bearing the brunt of global inequality and historical patterns of exclusion on a daily basis. The aim is to get students to think about how to create an economy in which all economies fit, and so think about a plurality of exchanges and values rather than inclusion/exclusion from a ‘mainstream’ economic system. ÌýCase studies are drawn from empirical work that is committed to centering the views of those whose voices have been excluded from the development of mainstream economic theories and policies – including the urban and rural poor, indigenous people, and women. ÌýThese will be analysed with reference to literature on decolonising the economy and feminist work on economic diversity, which challenges key economic and political ideas, and problematises the divisions between formal/informal, traditional/modern, productive/reproductive, and even legal/illegal. ÌýOn this basis, the module invites students to rethink what counts as value, exchange, production, corruption and modernity and so reimagine genuinely plural approach to prosperity. Ìý

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Illustrative module outline:

The MSc programmes at the Institute for Global Prosperity are interdisciplinary and attract students from around the world from a range of backgrounds. ÌýTo promote an inclusive learning environment, the module will use a range of teaching techniques that include peer to peer learning, student led teaching, classroom discussion, group and individual work, and interactive lectures. ÌýThe seminars will be discussion and activity based, with students leading the seminars with group presentations from weeks 3-9. ÌýIndependent study will be supported by online materials and reading lists from academic and policy journals and from regions around the world.Ìý

Indicative schedule:
1.ÌýÌý ÌýDecentering prosperity: Economic plurality and livelihoods
2.ÌýÌý ÌýThe formal, informal and illicit – where to draw the lines?
3.ÌýÌý ÌýIndigenous livelihoods and anti-extractivism
4.ÌýÌý Ìý‘Slums’ and peri-urban settlements: people as infrastructure
5.ÌýÌý ÌýPopular markets, autonomy and resistance.
6.ÌýÌý ÌýWomen-targeted microfinance and rural credit.
7.ÌýÌý ÌýMoney laundering and tax avoidance: Illicit activity or alternative financial system?
8.ÌýÌý ÌýContraband: Trafficking, contraband and economic legitimacy
9.ÌýÌý ÌýDecolonising modernity: Indigenous fashions and architecture
10.ÌýÌý ÌýSummary and conclusion: An economy where all economies fit.Ìý