Syllabus
- September 3: Introduction and overview
Section 1. Greed: Right or Wrong?
- September 8: Photocopy packet: Rush
Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be, Chs. 7, 14,
17, 23; video clips from Wall Street, An Indecent
Proposal.
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- September 10: Packet: Robert Frank,
Supplementary Chapter 7, from Microeconomics and
Behavior.
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- September 15: Frank, continued.
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- September 17: Packet: Nancy
Folbre, Ch. 1 of Who Cares?, "Humankindness"
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- September 22: Folbre, continued.
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- September 24: Quiz and transition to
next section.
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- Homework assignment 1 due in
discussion section the week of September 15.
- Paper due the week of September 22.
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Section 2: Globalization: Good or Bad?
- September 29: Packet:"The Low-Down
Laid-Off Downsizing Blues." Slide show presentation
in class.
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- October 1: Packet: William Grieder, Ch.
4 of One World, Ready or Not
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- October 6: Packet: Folbre, Ch. 5 of Who
Cares?, "Fair Play."
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- October 8: Folbre continued. Video clip
from Other People’s Money
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- October 13: No class.
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- October 15: Quiz and transition to next
section.
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- Homework assignment 2 due in
discussion section the week of October 6.
- Paper due the week of October 13.
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Section 3. Tax the Rich: Why Not?
- October 20: Packet: Bradley Schiller,
Ch. 18 of The Microeconomy Today.
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- October 22: Packet: Folbre, "Middle
Class Analysis," from Who Cares?
- Video clip from Lions of Capitalism.
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- October 27: Pizzigatti, The Maximum
Wage, Chs.1-2.
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- October 29: Pizzigatti, Chs. 3-5
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- November 3: Quiz and video:Thoughts
on Capitalism with Louis Kelso
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- Homework assignment 3 due in
discussion section the week of October 27.
- Paper due the week of November 3.
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Section 4. Educational Choice: More or Less?
- November 5: John Chubb and Eric
Hanushek, "Reforming Educational Reform"
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- November 10: Nancy Folbre, Ch. 3 from
from Who Cares?, "Robin Hood Goes to
School." Video: Learning in America:
Upstairs/Downstairs
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- November 12: Jonathan Kozol, Savage
Inequalities
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- November 17: Kozol, continued.
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- November 19: Quiz and transition to next
section.
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- Homework assignment 4 due in
discussion section week of November 10.
- Paper due in discussion section week of November 17
Section 5. Fighting Poverty: Carrots or
Sticks?
- November 24: Nancy Folbre, Ch. 4 from Who
Cares?, "Welfare Farewell"
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- November 26: Folbre, continued.
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- December 1: Albelda, et al., War on
the Poor, Section 1
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- December 3: Albelda, et al., continued
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- December 8: Video: William J. Wilson on
Poverty
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- December 10: Quiz and class evaluation.
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- Homework assignment 5 due in
discussion section week of December 1.
- Paper due in discussion section week of December 8.