WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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I. Introduction and Overview | ||
1 | The Evolution of the Industrial State | |
2 | Paradigms in Social Science | |
II. Liberalism and Neoclassical Economics | ||
2 | Film: The Fountainhead. Directed by King Vidor. Black and White, 114 min. 1949. | |
3 |
Discussion of Rand Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom | |
4 |
Becker Gilder | |
III. Marxism, Economics and Politics | ||
5 |
Marxism: The Manifesto Elster | |
6 |
Capital, The Division of Labor and Machinery Bowles and Gintis Foley |
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7 | Midterm Exam | Essay 1 due |
IV. The Social Embeddedness of the Economy | ||
8 |
Introduction Weber | |
9 |
Polanyi Schumpeter | |
10 | Keynes | |
V. The Rise and Fall of the Corporate State | ||
10 | Galbraith and Solow | |
11 | Piore and Sabel | Essay 2 due |
VI. The Crisis | ||
12–13 |
The Crisis Davis Lo | |
VII. Recasting Individualism | ||
13 |
Thaler and Sunstein DellaVigna | |
14 |
Arendt Sacks Lester and Piore | Essay 3 due |
15 |
The Soul of A New Machine The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Wrap Up | |
16 | Final Exam |