Readings
Please note that you will find the full readings nested in the weekly learning sequences.
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION
- Harold James, "Capitalism Da Capo," American Interest (2015)
- Jonathan Levy, "The Rise of Finance," Public Books (2011)
- Gail Fosler, "Lessons from Kindleberger on the Financial Crisis," The Gail Fosler Group (2013)
WEEK 2: LABOR
- Peter Coy, “Unemployment in the U.S. Is Falling So why Isn’t Pay Rising?” Bloomberg (2017)
- Kimberly Clausing, “Labor and Capital in the Global Economy,” Democracy (2017)
- Michael Grabell, “Can Low-Wage Industries Survive Without Immigrants and Refugees?” ProPublica (2017)
- James Livingston, “F*ck work,” Aeon (2016)
- [optional] Sami Mahroum, “An OPEC for Migrant Labor?” Project Syndicate (2016)
- [optional] Seth Ackerman, “The Work of Anti-Work: A Response to Peter Frase,” Jakobin (2012)
WEEK 3: COMMODITIES AND CONSUMPTION
- Sarah Hill, “The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz,” Boston Review (2016)
- Constance L. Hays, “For Wal-Mart, New Orleans is Hardly the Big Easy,” New York Times (2003)
- Nelson Lichtenstein, “Is Walmart Good for Americans?” [Interview] PBS (2004)
- "Walmart on Tax Day: How Taxpayers Subsidize America’s Biggest Employer and Richest Family,” Americans For Tax Fairness (2014)
- Florian Shui, “The Good Consumer,” Aeon (2014)
WEEK 4: DEVELOPMENT
- Perdue, Peter C., “Lucky England, Normal China,” H-Net (2000)
- Rieff, David, “An American Passion for Tyrants,” The New York Review (2014)
- Kirk, Martin, “It’s Time to Move Beyond Growth for Growth’s Sake,” Aeon (2015)
- Ojomo, Efosa, “Obsession with Ending Poverty is where Development is Going Wrong,” The Guardian (2017)
- “What are some of the Main Concerns and Criticisms about the World Bank and IMF?” The Bretton Woods Project (2005)
WEEK 5: ENVIRONMENT
- “A Brief History of Climate Change,” BBC News, (2013)
- Elizabeth Kolbert, “Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?” The New York Review of Books, (2014)
- Patrick Robbins, “Interrupting the Future: A Conversation with Timothy Mitchell,” The Leap Blog, (2016)
- John Ledger, “How the Cod War of 40 Years Ago left a Yorkshire Community Devastated,” The Yorkshire Post. (2015)
- John Simmonds and Pelagic Group, “Managing Scotland’s Herring Stocks,” Pelagic News, (2011)
WEEK 6: GLOBALIZATION
- Marvin McInnis, Review of Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy," H-Net (2000)
- Mark Levenson, “End of a Golden Age,” Aeon ( 2017)
- Branko Milanovic, “Understanding Global Inequality,” Social Europe (2016)
- Adam Tooze, “A General Theory of Crisis,” London Review of Books (2017)
- John Judis in conversation with Dani Rodrik, “What’s Wrong With Our System of Global Trade and Finance,” Talking Points Memo (2017)
- [optional] Dani Rodrik, “Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy”
- [optional] Branko Milanovic, “Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization”