TUL560 COMMUNITY ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC THEORIES 
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Students will contrast some major Development Economics theories against Biblical principles.
Biblical reflections on some major Economic Development theories.
A review of Rostow's Linear Take-Off Theory
Dualism
COOPERATIVE THEORIES
Students will review theories behind cooperative economics
The Nature of the Cooperative Movement
The Rochester Principles
SOCIALISM & MARXISM
There have been a diversity of cooperative attempts that have lead to State socialism.
Contrast of prime elements of Marxism, Socialism and Cooperative Movements
URBAN ECONOMIC THEORIES
Specific urban theories within economics that give understanding of the causes of the expansion of the informal sector and the nature of its interface with the formal sector.Two Sector Theories
Marginalization Theories
Jane Jacobs Urban Economics
Urban Geography and slum locations
READINGS
Introductory readings in economic theory that affect the Informal Sector. Readings in Economic Theories
GRASSROOTS & GLOBAL CAPITALISM
Students will be able to describe aspects of global economics that affect the slums: the two circuits, trade between cities, conditions for achievement orientatioin, religious/psychological preconditions in cultures for economic take-off and the effects of these on lower circuit release of entrepreneurs
Historic morphing of Protestant Capitalism into Global Capitalism
Realities: Idealised American Capitalism vs Democratic Capitaism
The Role of the State: Political Economics
Critique of Global Captialism: Release of billions from poverty or the utimate oppression of the masses?