BHAWANIPATNA COURSES OF STUDIES FOR POST GRADUATION SEMESTER-I 2010 SEMESTER-II 2011 SEMESTER-III 2011 SEMESTER-IV 2012 Published by : Government Autonomous College Bhawanipatna-766001, Kalahandi (ORISSA) Copy right reserved Courses of Studies CONTENTS Page Economics : 1 - 17 English : 18 - 25 Geography : 26 - 41 History : 42 - 55 Oriya : 56 - 73 Pol. Science : 74 - 84 Government Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna 122Courses of Studies Courses of Studies 1 POST GRADUATE ECONOMICS There shall be sixteen theory papers and two term papers, seminar & viva - voce tests. Papers - I, II, III, IV shall constitute the 1st semester course. Papers - V, VI, VII VIII & IX (Term paper, Seminar & viva-voce) shall constitute the 2nd semester. Papers X, XI, XII, &, XIII shall constitute 3rd semester. Papers XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII (Term paper, Seminar & Viva-voce) shall constitute 4th semester. Each theory Paper shall carry 50 marks and are of 3 hours duration. Each term paper, seminar & viva-voce tests shall carry 100 marks. There shall be 4 (Four) Units in each theory paper. Each theory paper shall have four long questions with alternatives; (one with an alternative from each unit). The distribution of marks for Paper-IX and XVIII shall be as follows: Seminar:20, Term paper:50 and Viva Voce: 30. COURSE STRUCTURE SEMESTER-I PAPER-I Micro Economic Analysis-I 50 MARKS PAPER -II Economics of Development & Planning-I 50 MARKS PAPER -III Quantitative Methods-I Or Statistical Methods-I 50 MARKS PAPER -IV History of Economic Thought-I 50 MARKS Total : 200 MARKS SEMESTER-II PAPER -V Micro Economic Analysis-II 50 MARKS PAPER -VI Economics of Development & Planning-II 50 MARKS PAPER -VII Quantitative Methods Or Statistical Methods-II 50 MARKS PAPER -VIII History of Economic Thought-II 50 MARKS PAPER -IX Term Paper, Seminar, & Viva-Voce 100 MARKS (50+20+30) Total : 300 MARKS SEMESTER-III PAPER -X Macro Economic Analysis-I 50 MARKS PAPER -XI Public Economics-I 50 MARKS PAPER -XII Theory of International Trade & Trade Policy-I 50 MARKS PAPER -XIII Rural Development - Theory & Practice-I 50 MARKS Total : 200 MARKS Government Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna Government Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna 2Courses of Studies Courses of Studies 3 SEMESTER-IV PAPER - II ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING-I Marks: 50 PAPER -XIV Macro Economic Analysis-II 50 MARKS Unit - I PAPER -XV Public Economics-II 50 MARKS Development - Concept and measurement, Development Vrs Economic Growth, factors PAPER -XVI Theory of International Trade & Trade Policy-II 50 MARKS of Economic growth, Development indicators: The basic needs approach, Human PAPER -XVII Rural Development - Theory & Practice-II 50 MARKS Development approach - Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) PAPER -XVIII Term Paper, Seminar, & Viva-Voce 100 MARKS Human Development Index (HDI). (50+20+30) Unit - II Total : 300 MARKS Growth Models : Keynesian Model, Harrod - Domar model, Solow GRAND TOTAL 1000 MARKS Unit- III Growth Models: Rostow's stages of Economic Growth, Robinson's model, Kaldor model, DETAILED SYLLABUS & Meade's model SEMESTER - I Unit-IV Strategies of Development : a) Utilisation of Surplus Manpower - Lewis' theory Vs PAPER - I MICRO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS-I Marks: 50 Nurkse's theory, Fei and Rani's approach b) Leibeinstein's Critical Minimum Effort thesis, UNIT-I c) Balanced Vs unbalanced growth strategies. Theory of Consumer behavior: - A Critique of the cardinal approach & Indifference Curve approach, splitting of price effects into income and substitution effects - Hick Vs Paper-III Quantitative Methods - I Marks : 50 Slutsky theorem. Revealed preference theory, Revision of demand theory by Hicks, Unit - I Consumer's Surplus - Marshallian and Hicksian approach. Probability Theory : Total probability, compound probability, conditional probability, Bayes theorem, Mathematical expectation. Probability distribution, Binomial, Normal, Poisson, Unit - II Multi-nomial and Hyper geometric Law of large numbers and Central limit theorem (without Theory of Product behavior:- proof). Standard sampling distribution, Chi-square, t and F (definition and properties). Production function:- Types of Production function - Homogeneous production function, Cobb - Douglas Production function and its Properties, Laws of returns and Returns to Unit - II scale, Isoquant and isocost, optimal combination of resources, expansion path - Linear Statistical inference: Concepts and methods of estimation, unbiasedness and minimum programming in the context of maximization of profit and minimization of cost. variance, confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing - concepts and methods - simple and composite hypothesis, Type - I and Type - II errors. Unit - III Theory of Product Pricing:- Unit - III Perfect Competition: - Equilibrium of firm and industry, Price determination, output Regression analysis : Classical Linear regression model- Least squares method, determination under perfect competition under both identical as well as differential cost assumptions, violations of classical assumptions, introduction to non-linear regression. conditions. Unit-IV Unit-IV Correlation analysis: Bivariate, multivariate distribution, partial and multiple correlation, Monopoly - Price and output determination under Monopoly, Discriminating Monopoly correlation coefficient, rank correlation. & Dumping. "OR" Monopolistic Competition :- Equilibrium of the firm and group of firms in short and Paper-III Statistical Methods - I Marks : 50 long run, product variation and selling costs. Unit - I Oligopoly: - Price and output determination, Cournot solution, Kinked demand curve, Definition of Statistics, types of variable, classification, tabulation and graphic presentation Stakelberg model, price leadership. of data. Government Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna Government Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna 4Courses of Studies Courses of Studies 5 Unit - II Unit - III Study of frequency of data, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, Welfare Economics : Classical Welfare Economics, Old welfare Economies, Contribution skewness, moments & kurtosis. of Marshall and Pigou- Paretian welfare economics- conditions of paretian optimum, Unit-III perfectly competitive economy and paretian optimum, an appraisal, New welfare Bivariate distribution, simple correlation, linear regression, Multivariate distribution. economics-Compensation principle, Hicks-Kaldor criterion, Scitovsky double criterion, criticism of the Compensation principle, Bergson - Samuelson Social welfare function - Unit - IV an appraisal. Elements of probability theory, total probability, compound, probability and mathematical expectation. Frequency distribution: Binomial, Normal, Poisson with important properties. Unit - IV General Equilibrium: Concepts of general equilibrium -analysis and its applications, Paper-IV History of Economic Thought - I Marks : 50 inter-dependence in the economy, the walrasian system, existence, uniqueness and stability of an equilibrium and general equilibrium. General equilibrium system (2x2x2 Unit - I model), General equilibrium and allocation of resources, Prices of commodities and Mercantilism : Leading Ideas, their balance of trade doctrine, appraisal of mercantilism. factors. Factor ownership and income distribution, Effects of changes in factor supply in Physiocracy : The natural order, the net product, circulation of wealth-Tableu Economy. closed economy. Trade and Taxation and policy suggestion, evaluation of physiocratic ideas. Unit - II PAPER -VI ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING - II Marks: 50 The English Classical School: Basic features, Adam smith-his economic philosophy, theory of value, Distribution and growth, trade, taxation etc. Ricardo's theory of value Unit - I and distribution and growth, international trade. Malthus - theory of population and glut, Internal sources of Economic Development : a) Capital formation- Nurkse's analysis Say's law of market. of vicious circle of poverty, Process and sources of capital formation, disguised J. S. Mill-his contribution to Economics Science. unemployment and saving potential, b) Monetary policy & Fiscal policy c) State Unit - III Unit - II Critics of Classical Economics : Scientific and utopian Socialism (Sismondi) St. Simon External sources of economic development -Foreign capital, foreign direct investment, (Charles Furior, Louis Monk, Proudhan) foreign aid, international trade. Unit-IV Unit-III Marxist Scientific Socialism. Marxian philosophy and the basic ingredients -theory of Technique of Development: Planning and plan models -Mahalanobis model, Input - output surplus value, falling rate of profit, transformation and appraisal of Marxian ideas. model, Accounting prices, capital - output ratio. Reaction against Classicism: German Historical School: - R. Fredric List and his Unit - IV contribution. Planning Problems and Policies of Development Planning: Investment criteria, choice of technique, Technological dualism, appropriate & intermediate technology, International SEMESTER - II transfer of technology. Concept and strategy for Regional Planning, Regional imbalances and the measures to PAPER -V MICRO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS - II Marks: 50 reduce it, Policy for balanced regional development. Unit - I Theories of Distribution & Factor Pricing: Marginal Productivity theory, Euler's theorem Paper-VII Quantitative Methods - II Marks : 50 and adding up problem, theories of wage. Unit - I Unit-II Calculus : Concept of Limit, Logarithmic, exponential series, Continuity. The derivative Rent (Classical