Readings

Reading files.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
Unit 1: Origins and Variation in Economic Relations
1	First Class	No assigned readings
2	Economic Anthropology 1	Sahlins, Marshall. "The Original Affluent Society (abridged)." In The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice (Methodology & History in Anthropology). Edited by Jacqueline Solway. Berghahn Books, 2006. ISBN: 9781845451158. [Preview with Google Books]
3	Economic Anthropology 2	Rubin, Gayle. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (PDF - 5.1MB). Notes on Gayle Rubin's "The Traffic in Women" (PDF) Recommended Mauss, Marcel. "Introduction." Chapters 1 & 2 in The Gift: Expanded Edition. HAU, 2016. ISBN: 9780990505006.
Unit 2: Classical Social Contract Theory and its Discontents
4	Social Contract Theory 1: Hobbes	Hobbes, Thomas. "Introduction." Chapters 10–21 and 24 in Leviathan. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ISBN: 9781539407096.
5	Hobbes: Context & Critique	Hirschmann, Nancy J. "Hobbes on the Family." In The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes. Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 242. ISBN: 9780199791941. Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. "Meet the Alloparents: Shared Child Care May Be the Secret of Human Evolutionary Success." Natural History 118, no. 3 (2009): 24–29. Boehm, Christopher, Harold B. Barclay, et al. "Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]." Current Anthropology 34, no. 3 (1993): 227–54.
6	Locke on Property	Locke, John. "Introduction." Chapter 5 in Second Treatise of Government. Edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 1980. ISBN: 9780915144860. Notes on Locke on Property (PDF)
7	Locke: Context & Critique	Arneil, Barbara. John Locke and America: The Defence of English Colonialism. Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780198279679. [Preview with Google Books] Ellickson, Robert C. "Property in Land." Yale Law School (1993): 1315–400.
8	Social Contract Theory 2: Rousseau	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192839817. [Preview with Google Books] ———. "The Social Contract: Introduction, Books I & II." In Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy. 2nd edition. Edited by Steven M. Cahn. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199791156.
9	Wollstonecraft	Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199555468.
10	Rousseau: Context & Critique	Creolizing Rousseau. Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014. ISBN: 9781783482818. Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801434549.
11	More Context & Critique	Boyer, Anne. "Data's Work is Never Done." Guernica, March 2015. Nussbaum, Martha. "Justice." In Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers. Edited by Astra Taylor. The New Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781595584472. [Preview with Google Books] Smith, Andrea. "Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing." (PDF - 3.1MB) In Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. Edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Duke University Press Books, 2016. ISBN: 9780822362951. Kittay, Eva Feder. "Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of the Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 10, no. 1 (1995): 8–29.
Unit 3: Capitalism and its Discontents
12	Capitalism	Smith, Adam. Book 1, Chapters 1–4 in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. Edited by Edwin Cannan. University of Chicago Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780226763743. Graeber, David. "The Myth of Barter." In Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2011.
13	Marx 1	Marx, Karl. "Capital." In Selected Writings. 2nd edition. Edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780198782650.
14	Marx & Engles, cont.	Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Penguin Classics, 2010. ISBN: 9780141191119. [Preview with Google Books]
15	Movie Day	Film: FLOW: For the Love of Water. Directed by Irena Salina. Color, 93 min. 2008.
16	Marx 2	Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy (Great Books in Philosophy). Prometheus Books, 1998, pp. 41–44 and 57–62. ISBN: 9781573922586. Althusser, Louis. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation). 1970.
Unit 4: Global Capital and Other Structures
17	Global Perspectives on Reproductive Labor	Mies, Maria. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (Critique. Influence. Change.). Zed Books, 2014. ISBN: 9781783601691. Nair, Yasmin. "Why Is America Turning to Shit?" The Awl. October 30, 2013.
18	Imperialism & Settler Colonialism (anti/de/postcolonial reception of Marx)	Cesaire, Aime. "Discourse on Colonialism." In Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. Monthly Review Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781583670255. [Preview with Google Books] Galeano, Eduardo. "Introduction." Chapter 1 in Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. Monthly Review Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780853459910. [Preview with Google Books]
19	Slavery and the Slave Trade	Douglass, Frederick. Chapters XIV–XVII in My Bondage and My Freedom. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN: 9781519423566. Anderson, Elizabeth. "Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress: Case Studies from Britain's Abolition of Slavery." (PDF) The Lindley Lecture, The University of Kansas. February 11, 2014.
Unit 5: Applied Problems in Political Economy
20	Commodification	Marx, Karl. "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof." In Capital - A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. Vol. 1. International Publishers Company, Incorporated, 1979. ISBN: 9780717800179. Appadurai, Arjun. "Commodities and the Politics of Value." In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780521357265. [Preview with Google Books]
21	Commodification (Cont.)	Titmuss, Richard. "The Gift of Blood." Society 8, no. 3 (1971): 18–26. Anderson, Elizabeth. "The Ethical Limitations of the Market." In Value in Ethics and Economics. Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780674931909. [Preview with Google Books]
22	Public Goods	Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162, no. 3859 (1968): 1243–8. Heller, Michael A., and Rebecca S. Eisenberg. "Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research." Science 280, no. 5364 (1998): 698–701.
23	Public Goods (Cont.)	Ostrom, Elinor. Chapters 1–3 in Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521405997. [Preview with Google Books]
24	Environmental Economics	Agarwal, Bina. "The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India." Feminist Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 119–58.
25	Environmental Economics (Cont.)	Maltais, Aaron. "Radically Non-ideal Climate Politics and the Obligation to at Least Vote Green." Environmental Values 22, no. 5 (2013): 589–608.
26	Last Class	No assigned readings

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