| WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |