| week # | Topics | readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tensions between Capitalism and Democracy | Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. "Social Capital and Community Governance." The Economic Journal 112 (2002). Dryzek, John S. "Legitimacy and Economy in Deliberative Democracy." Political Theory 29, no. 5 (2001): 651-669. Bachrach, Peter, and Aryeh Botwinick. Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992. Harris, Cheryl I. "Whiteness As Property." Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (1993).  Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. "Wealth and Racial Stratification." In America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences. Edited by N. J. Smelser, W. J. Wilson, and F. Mitchell. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. ISBN: 0309068401. |
| 2 | Tensions between Capitalism and Environmental Sustainability |
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. ISBN: 0316353167. (Read chapters 1, 5, 13, and 14 at a minimum, read other chapters relevant to your participation interest (transportation, waste removal, etc.)) |
| 3 | Combining Political and Economic Development | Cummings, Scott L. "Community Economic Development as Progressive Politics: Toward a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice." Stanford Law Review 54 (2002): 399-493. Feldman, Jonathan Michael, and Jessica Gordan Nembhard. "Towards a New Community Development Paradigm: The Political and Economic Agenda." Planners Network 149 (2001). World Bank. Building Institutions for Markets. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0195216067. Lindblom, Charles. The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Chapters 17, 18, and 19. ISBN: 0300087527.International Joint Project on Co-operative Democracy. Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in Cooperatives. Saskatoon, Canada: Centre for the Study of Cooperatives, University of Saskatchewan, 1995. Chapters 1, 5, and 7. ISBN: 0888803346. |
| 4 | Cooperative Models |
Fairbairn, Brett, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lous Hammond Ketilson, and Daniel Ish. Co-operatives and Community Development. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Centre for the Study of Cooperatives, University of Saskatchewan, 1991. ISBN: 0888802498. Prahalad, C. K., and Allen Hammond. "What Works: Serving the Poor, Profitably." Markle Foundation, 2002. (  PDF)Denison, Alice, and Alan Wilson. CLF Ventures: A History. Boston, MA: CLF, 2002. MacLeod, Greg. From Mondragon to America. Sydney, Nova Scotia: University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997. ISBN: 0920336531.Cohen-Mitchell, Tim. "Community Currencies at a Crossroads." New Village Journal 2 (2000): 42-49. |
| 5 | Community-Owned Real Estate (Trusts and Housing Coops) Presentation by Will Bradshaw on Market Creek | Carr, James H. "Community Capital and Markets: A New Paradigm for Community Reinvestment." The Neighbor Works Journal (1999). Nadeau, E. G., and David J. Thompson. "Cooperative Housing Brings the Dream Home," and "Senior Co-op Housing." Chapters 5, and 6 in Cooperation Works! How people are using cooperative action to rebuild communities and revitalize the economy. Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, LTD, 1996. ISBN: 1883477131. |
| 6 | Banking and Financing Presentations by Lynn Benander |
Taub, Richard P. Community Capitalism: The South Shore Bank's Strategy for Neighborhood Revitalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. Chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 9. ISBN: 0875841937. Nadeau, and Thompson. "Community Development Credit Unions." Chapter 8 in Cooperation Works! How people are using cooperative action to rebuild communities and revitalize the economy. Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, LTD, 1996. ISBN: 1883477131. NRC. Credit Union Partnerships with NeighborWorks Organizations (PDF). Washington, DC, 2002. Hansmann, Henry. The Ownership of Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Chapters 13, and 14. ISBN: 0674649702.Yago, Glenn, Betsy Zeidman, and Bill Schmidt. Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets. New York, NY: Milken Institute, 2003. (Out of print.) |
| 7 | Union Pension Investing |
Fung, Archon, Tessa Hebb, and Joel Rogers, eds. Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 6. ISBN: 0801439019. Quarter, Jack, Isla Carmichael, Jorge Sousa, and Susan Elgie. "Social Investment by Union-Based Pension Funds and Labour Sponsored Pension Funds in Canada." RUIR 56, no. 1 (2001). Nell, Stephen C., and Kevin M. Walsh. "Participant Directed TAFT-HARTLEY plans: Ten Steps for Getting Started." Employee Benefits Journal 23, no. 3 (1998). Blackburn, Robin. Banking on Death or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions. New York, NY: Verso. ISBN: 1859847951. |
| 8 | Privatization and Gainsharing Presentations by Lynn Benander | Thompson, J. Phillip, and Ross Gittell. "Privatization and Community: Linking Interests in Poor Communities." (Submitted for journal review, December, 1996.) Weisbrod, Burton, ed. To Profit or Not to Profit. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0521631807. (Readings to be assigned.) |
| 9 | Organizing Remittances | Inter-American Foundation. Approaches to Increasing the Productive Value of Remittances. Washington, DC, 2001. |
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| 15 | Project Discussion |