WEALTH & POWER
SO 472/EC 472/HO 478L
Essay #1 2006 Due Thursday, Sept. 21
Essays 2-3 2006
Essay #2 is due Thursday, Oct. 5
Essay #3 is due Thursday, Oct. 26
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An article about Nobel Economics Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz and World Bank and IMF policies
Z Magazine's WTO Primer
Commentaries and historical background on the 9/11 attacks
Robert Scheer, "Bush's Faustian Deal with the Taliban"
NOTES on VARIOUS LECTURES and DISCUSSIONS
1. An Introduction to the Concept of "Power"
Participating in
Exploitation
Competition
2. What Is Fair Compensation for Workers?
3. INEQUALITY
What
It Takes to Survive in Denver.
Also, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
analysis of new Census Bureau data
on inequality.
For more information about income and
wealth inequality:
www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0831-03.htm
Holly
Sklar on
CEO pay
Dollars & Sense "Answer Man" on the significance
of inequality.
Institutes and Research Centers on Inequality and Poverty:
www.inequality.org
www.epinet.org
Economic Policy Institute
www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp
Institute for Research on Poverty
4. On Individualism: Individualism and the Social Contract
5. Objectivity and Subjectivity
7. Robert Pollin on the "Natural Rate" of inflation (Current Economic Issues, 8th Edition, Chapter 5, Article 20).
8. Structuralism versus Instrumentalism
9. Why Think Tanks Got Started
10. Notes on Tax,
Welfare, and Environmental Policies
Democracy and
Capitalism
Taken for a Ride
11. Militarism and War
"Arms for the Poor" (closely paraphrased transcript)
World War II, U.S. Arms Dealing and Foreign Policy
An article from Znet on Blair, Bush, democracy, militarism and uncritical media by John Pilger: "The Blair Doctrine: Blood & Money."
12. Globalization:
"Trading
Democracy"
13. Public Opinion
"Toxic
Sludge Is Good for You"
The Importance of Journalistic Professionalism
14. The Conflict of Interest between Small Business and Giant Corporations
15.
What
the Bush Administration Knew about Terrorist Attacks before 9-11-01
Backyard
Terrorism
WHAT WEALTH MEANS
Preface
Chapter One:
Objectivity, Bias and Standpoint
Chapter Two:
Private Property
Private Property Issues
Chapter Three:
Wealth and Money
Money and Value
Chapter Four:
Capital, Commodities and Markets
The
Context for Capital
CONTEXT AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS in the EVALUATION OF SOURCES
PARENTI, Chapter 8: "Criminal Justice"
A case study of FBI disruption of
student activism: The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
Various Marxist
analyses of capitalist economic crises.
There's also a good bit of material at this web site, from mainstream and
radical sources, on the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.