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I'm a half British, half Gambian secondary school student and youth delegate for the Ontario New Democratic Party. My academic interests include constitutional design, democratic theory, distributive justice, economic sociology, electoral systems, industrial organization, institutional economics, international political economy, the political economy of development, public economics, radical right-wing populism, the political economy of socialism, and urban planning.
LSE reading lists for prospective students
- The general character of politics
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- B Crick, In Defence of Politics (1962, later reprints)
- E Luttwak, Turbocapitalism: winners and losers in the global economy (1998)
- K Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction (2000)
- Political thought
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Machiavelli, The Prince- J S Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
- J S Mill, On Liberty
- Political analysis and political institutions
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- A H Birch, The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy (2nd edition, 2001)
- P Dunleavy and B O'Leary, Theories of the State (1987)
- L Le Duc, R Niemi and P Norris (Eds), Comparing Democracies 2: new challenges in the study of elections and voting (2002)
- Philosophy
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- R Descartes, Meditations or Discourse on Method (any edition)
- T Nagel, What Does it All Mean? (Oxford University Press, 1987)
- Bernard Williams, Morality: An introduction to ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1972; revised edition Canto, 1993)
- Economics
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- D Begg, S Fischer and R Dornbusch, Foundations of Economics (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002)
- P Heyne, P J Boettke and D L Prychitko, The Economic Way of Thinking (11th edition, Prentice Hall, 2006)
- Sociology
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- P Abbot and C Wallace, An Introduction to Sociology: feminist perspectives (2nd edition, Routledge, 1996)
- N Abercrombie et al, Contemporary British Society (3rd edition, Polity Press, 2000)
- P Berger, Invitation to Sociology: a humanistic perspective (Penguin, 1988)
- J Elster, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- A Giddens, Sociology (4th edition, Polity Press, 2001)
- S Hall and B Gieben (Eds), Formations of Modernity (Polity Press, 1992)
- C Jenks (Ed) Core Sociological Dichotomies (Sage, 1998)
- K Morrison, Marx, Durkheim and Weber: foundations of modern social thought (Sage, 1997)
- C F Seale (Ed), Researching Society and Culture (Sage, 1998)
Canonical works
- Plato (C. 428-348 BC)
- The Republic
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Laws
- Augustine (354-430)
- The Confessions
- Aristotle (C. 384-322 BC)
- Posterior Analytics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Politics
- On Poetics
- Chaucer (1509-1564)
- The Canterbury Tales
- Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Leviathan, or, Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
- Erasmus (C. 1467 - C. 1536)
- The Praise of Folly
- Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- The Tempest
- John Bunyan (1628-1688)
- The Pilgrim's Progress
- Locke (1632-1704)
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- A Letter Concerning Toleration Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
- Two Treatises of Government
- Rousseau (1712-1778)
- On the Origin of Inequality
On Political EconomyThe Social Contract
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), John Jay (1745-1829)
- The Federalist
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- The Philosophy of Right
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Notre Dame de Paris
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- Democracy in America
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Little Dorrit
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Moby Dick
- Karl Marx (1818-1833)
- Capital
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- Fydor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- The Brother Karamazov
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
- General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- Max Weber (1864-1920)
- Selections from Essays in Sociology:
- Part I: Science and Politics
- Part II: Power
- Part III: Religion
Other works that have aroused my interest
- Newbury, Catharine, The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)
- Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
- Pons, Frank Moya, The Dominican Republic: A National History (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 1998)
- Vedovato, Claudiom, Politics, Foreign Trade and Economic Development: A Study of the Dominican Republic (London: Croom Helm, 1986)
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