The Contemporary Culture of Capitalism: A Cost Benefit
Analysis
Instructor:
Phone:
Email:
Office Hours:
Daniel J. D'Amico
561-870-5941
danieljdamico@gmail.com
This semester I am teaching Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My
formal office hours will be from 9am – 11am on those days. But in
general I tend to be in my office, or on campus, throughout the week
with the exception of lunchtime, economics club meetings or
administrative meetings.
If you find me, and need to ask a question, feel free to grab me when
you can, but the best and most reliable means is to come to the office
during those morning hours and or schedule an explicit appointment
via the email above.
I hope that you come by to introduce yourself, ask questions about
class, discuss economics and current events, or just plain say hello.
My door is always open and I honestly enjoy the company and
conversation.
Course Prerequisites: Prerequisite course required ECON-B100
Catalog Description:
Students will read from a variety of literatures critical, analytical and supportive of global
economic systems as they exist today. The course presents a critical question to its student
audience: what institutional arrangements be they economic, cultural, political, social or
ideological contribute to which facets of our contemporary social world for better or for
worse? Lastly students will be presented with the ability to recognize and apply theories from
comparative political economy, new institutional economics and basic economics to analyze,
appreciate and critique cultural trends from Glee, to Battlestar Galactica, to Jersey Shore, and
many more.
Course Goals and Objectives:
Students will develop and improve their understanding and abilities to apply "the economic
way of thinking." Specifically students will attempt to understand cultural trends through the
lens of economic analysis. They will also think critically about the relationship between
economic systems and social culture. Students will attempt to incorporate the concept of
culture into their broader lens of economic theory. Lastly, students will identify concepts
from political economy within contemporary cultural output.
Books:
Bastiat, F. (2007). The Bastiat Collection. Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Benjamin, W. (2008). The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
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Clark, G. (2007). A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Cowen, T. (1998). In Praise of Commercial Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cowen, T. (2002). Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Cowen, T. (2005). Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate
Painters. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Defoe, D. (1719 [2000]). Robinson Crusoe. Pennsylvania: Penn State Electronics Classics.
Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Owl
Book.
Fanon, F. (1961). The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
Friedman, D. (2008). Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Garland, D. (2001). Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little Brown Book.
Hamilton, A., Madison, J., and Jay, J. (1787 [2009]). The Federalist Papers. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Hayek, F. (1967). Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. New York: Clarion Books.
Klein, N. (2000) No Logo. Great Britain: Flamingo.
Lachmann, L. (1978). Capital and its Structure. Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel.
Lavoie, D. and Chamlee Wright, E. (2000). Culture and Enterprise: The Development,
Representation and Morality of Business. London: Routledge.
Lessig, L. (2008). Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Great Britain:
Bloomsbury.
Mankiw, G. (2011). Principles of Microeconomics. Sixth Edition. New York Cengage.
Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1888 [2008]). The Communist Manifesto. London: Pluto Press.
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McCloskey, D. (2006). The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
Mirowski, P. (2002). Machine Dreams: Economics
Cambridge University Press.
Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge:
Postrel, V. (2004). The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce,
Culture and Consciousness. New York: Harper Collins e-books.
Rand, A. (1961). The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: Signet.
Rand, A. (1961). Anthem. New York: Signet.
Rhodes, L. (2004). Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. Berkley:
University of California Press.
Roberts, R. (2000). The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Roberts, R. (2007). The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism, Third Edition. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall.
Rothbard, M. (1962 [2009]). Man, Economy and State with Power and Markets: Scholars Edition.
Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Schumpeter, J. (1943 [2003]). Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. London: Routledge.
Shelly, M. (1818). Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. E Books Directory.
Simon, J. (1998). The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment.
Sinclair, U. (1906). The Jungle. E-Books Directory.
Storr, V. (2004). Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas.
New York: Peter Lang.
Venkatesh, S. (2006). Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
Weber, M. (1930 [2005]). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge.
Zimbardo, P. (2007). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil. New York:
Random House.
Additional Reading Materials:
Alchian, A. (1993). "Property Rights," in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. D. Henderson
(ed.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
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Boettke, P. (1996). "Why Culture Matters: Economics, Politics and the Imprint of History,"
Nuova Economia e Storia. 3: 189-214.
Boettke, P. and Coyne, C. (2007). "The Political Economy of Forgiveneness," Society. 44(2):
53-59.
Boettke, P. and Storr, V. (2002). "Post Classical Political Economy," The American Journal of
Economics and Sociology. 61(1): 161-91.
Caplan, B. (2007), "Malthus on Stilts," Econlog.
Chamlee-Wright, E. and Storr, V. (2009). "'There's no Place Life New Orleans': Sense of
Place and Community Recovery in the Ninth Ward After Hurricane Katrina," Journal
of Urban Affairs. 31(5): 615-34.
D'Amico, D. and Block, W. (2007). "A Legal and Economic Analysis of Graffiti,"
Humanomics. 23(1): 29-38.
D'Amico, D. (2010). "Rock Me Like a Hurricane! How music communities promote social
capital adept for recovery," in After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and
Community Rebound. E. Chamlee-Wright and V. Storr (eds.). Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
pp. 126-40.
Demsetz, H. (1967). "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," The American Economic Review.
57(2): 347-59.
Djankov, S., Glaeser, E., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., and Shleifer, A. (2003). "The
new comparative economics," Journal of Comparative Economics. 31: 595-619.
Hanson, R. (unpublished). The Economics of Science Fiction.
Hardin, G. (1993). "Tragedy of the Commons," in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. D.
Henderson (ed.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
Hayek, F. (1945). "The Use of Knowledge in Society," American Economic Review. 35(4): 51930.
La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A. (2008). "The Economic Consequences of
Legal Origins," Journal of Economic Literature. 46(2): 285-332.
Miller, L. (2010). "Fresh Hell: What's behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young
readers?" The New Yorker. June 14.
Rajan, R. (2004). "The View From the IMF: Assume Anarchy?" The Globalist. November 24.
Read, L. (1958). I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read. Irvington on Hudson:
Foundation for Economic Education.
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Smith, V. (1998). "The Two Faces of Adam Smith," Southern Economic Journal. 65(1):1-19.
Solow, R. (1956). "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth," The Quarterly Journal
of Economics. 70(1): 65-94.
Stigler, G. and Becker, G, (1977). "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum," The American
Economic Review. 67(2): pp. 76-90.
Storr, V. (2008). "The Market as a Social Space: On the meaningful extra-economic
conversations that can occur in markets" Review of Austrian Economics. 21(2&3): 13550.
Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1981). "The framing of decisions and the psychology of
choice," Science. 211(4481): 453-458.
Weingast, B. (1995). "The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving
Federalism and Economic Development," Journal of Law, Economics & Organization.
11(1): 1-31.
Williamson, C. (2009). "Informal Institutions Rule: Institutional Arrangements and
Economic Performance," Public Choice. 139(3): 371-87.
Writing Assignment:
Students are expected to perform an original research project on the intersecting topics of
economics and culture. The paper should be no less than ten pages in length (12 point,
Times New Roman Double Spaced). Not including citations, graphs, headers footers or
cover page).
A full working draft of the paper is due for a grade twice throughout the semester.
Wednesday February 15 and Monday March 19.
The final draft of the paper is due the day of the final exam.
Examinations:
There will be one cumulative final examination essay (scheduled by the university).
Grading:
Grades will be awarded according to the following grading scale:
An A signifies that I think you have sketched a line of thought with sufficient clarity and cogency
that I would invite you to prepare a paper for the conference.
B+
B A B indicates that while you have not convinced me to invite you, you have nonetheless
convinced me that you have a reasonable grasp of your subject matter.
C+
A C means that I don’t come away with a clear idea of what you are trying to accomplish, and
might even think you are blundering around a bit.
D+
D
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F Unacceptable material
Hence students have 3 grades from their research paper (2 rough drafts, 1 final draft) and
one final cumulative essay examination. Each grade has equal weight.
Academic Integrity Statement:
The following passage is reprinted as it appears in the University Bulletin 2008 – 2009:
All academic work will be done by the student to whom it is assigned without unauthorized
data or help of any kind. A student who supplies another with such data or help is
considered deserving of the same sanctions as the recipient. Specifically, cheating, plagiarism,
and misrepresentation are prohibited. Plagiarism is defined by Alexander Lindley as “the
false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s
mind, and presenting it as one’s own” (Plagiarism and Originality). “Plagiarism may take the
form of repeating another’s sentences as your own, adopting a particularly apt phrase as your
own, paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own, or even presenting someone else’s
line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own.” (MLA
Handbook, 1985). A student who is found to have cheated on any examination may be given
a failing grade in the course. In case of a second violation, the student may be excluded for
one or two terms or dismissed from the university. A student who engages in cheating,
plagiarism, or misrepresentation on term papers, seminar papers, quizzes, laboratory reports,
and such may receive a sanction of a failing grade in the course. A second offense may be
cause for exclusion or dismissal from the university. Faculty members are required to report
immediately to the dean of the student’s college any case of cheating, plagiarism, or
misrepresentation which he or she has encountered and, later, the manner in which it was
resolved. The dean of the student’s college should apprise the student of the serious
consequences of cheating, plagiarism, and misrepresentation as well as of the appeals
procedure open to the student in such cases.
Disability Statement:
A student with a disability that qualifies for accommodations should contact Sarah Mead
Smith, Directory of Disability Services at 865-2990 (Academic Resources Center, Room 405,
Monroe Hall). A student wishing to receive test accommodations (e.g. extended test time)
should provide the instructor with an official Accommodation Form from Disability
Services in advance of the scheduled test date.
Week 1:
Monday
Readings:
Course Introduction:
(1) Course Syllabus
(2) Boettke, P. (1996). "Why Culture Matters:
Economics, Politics and the Imprint of History," Nuova
Economia e Storia. 3: 189-214.
SECTION I: THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING
Wednesday
Supply and Demand
Readings:
(1) Mankiw, G. (2011). Principles of Microeconomics.
Sixth Edition. New York Cengage.
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Part II: How Markets Work? pp. 63-132.
Friday
Readings:
Economic Production
(1) Defoe, D. (1719 [2000]). Robinson Crusoe.
Pennsylvania: Penn State Electronics Classics.
(2) Rothbard, M. (1962 [2009]). Man, Economy and
State with Power and Markets: Scholars Edition.
Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Chapters 5-9: pp. 319-628.
Week 2:
Monday
Readings:
Rationality and Incentives
(1) Stigler, G. and Becker, G, (1977). "De Gustibus Non
Est Disputandum," The American Economic Review.
67(2): pp. 76-90.
(2) Mises, L. (1949). Human Action: A Treatise
on Economics. San Francisco: Fox and Wilkes.
Chapter 1: Acting Man: pp. 11-29.
(3) Bastiat, F. (2007). The Bastiat Collection.
Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen: pp. 148.
Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles, Waxlights,
Lamps, Candlelights, Street Lamps, Snuffers,
Extinguishers, and the Producers of Oil, Tallow Resin,
Alcohol, and Generally, of Everything Connected with
Lighting: pp. 227-32.
Wednesday
Readings:
SECTION II ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Types of social systems: economic, cultural,
political, military, legal, etc.
(1) Boettke, P. and Storr, V. (2002). "Post Classical
Political Economy," The American Journal of Economics
and Sociology. 61(1): 161-91.
(2) Hayek, F. (1967). Studies in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics. New York: Clarion Books.
Chapter 4: Notes on the Evolution of Systems of Rules of
Conduct. pp. 66-81.
(3) Schumpeter, J. (1943 [2003]). Capitalism, Socialism
and Democracy. London: Routledge.
The Classical Doctrine of Democracy: 250-68.
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(4) La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A.
(2008). "The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins,"
Journal of Economic Literature. 46(2): 285-332.
Friday Readings:
Types of economic systems: capitalism, socialism,
Keynesianism, fascism, mercantilism,
corporativism, communism
(1) Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1888 [2008]). The
Communist Manifesto. London: Pluto Press.
pp. 31-89.
(2) Schumpeter:
Plausible Capitalism: pp. 72-80
The Process of Creative Destruction: 81-6
Another Theory of Democracy: pp. 269-302
Week 3:
Monday
Readings:
SECTION III WHAT IS CAPITALISM?
Property Rights
(1) Demsetz, H. (1967). "Toward a Theory of Property
Rights," The American Economic Review. 57(2): 347-59.
(2) Alchian, A. (1993). "Property Rights," in The Concise
Encyclopedia of Economics. D. Henderson (ed.).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
(3) Hardin, G. (1993). "Tragedy of the Commons," in The
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. D. Henderson (ed.).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
Wednesday
Readings:
The Price Mechanism
(1) Hayek, F. (1945). "The Use of Knowledge in Society,"
American Economic Review. 35(4): 519-30.
(2) Read, L. (1958). I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to
Leonard E. Read. Irvington on Hudson: Foundation for
Economic Education.
Friday
Readings:
Week 4:
Monday
SECTION IV ECONOMIC HISTORY
The Facts of Macroeconomic History:
(1) Solow, R. (1956). "A Contribution to the Theory of
Economic Growth," The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
70(1): 65-94.
The Stylized Facts of Macroeconomic History: The
Bad
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Readings:
(1) Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting By in America. New York: Owl Book.
pp. 106-120.
(2) Garland, D. (2001). Culture of Control: Crime and
Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
pp. 53-102.
(4) Sinclair, U. (1906). The Jungle. E-Books Directory.
Wednesday
Readings:
Friday
Readings:
The Stylized Facts of Macroeconomic History: The
Good
(1) McCloskey, D. (2006). The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics
for an Age of Commerce. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. pp. 1-90.
SECTION IV THE CULTURE OF ENTERPRISE:
Selfishness
(1) Rand, A. (1961). The Virtue of Selfishness. New
York: Signet. pp. 5-31 and 46-56.
(2) Smith, V. (1998). "The Two Faces of Adam Smith,"
Southern Economic Journal. 65(1):1-19.
Week 5:
Monday
Readings:
Capitalism's effect upon Culture?
(1) Postrel, V. (2004). The Substance of Style: How the
Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture
and Consciousness. New York: Harper Collins e-books.
pp: 1-65.
(2) Cowen, T. (1998). In Praise of Commercial Culture.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
pp. 15-43.
Wednesday
Readings:
The Culture we need for Capitalism?
(1) McCloskey, pp. 407-508.
(2) Weber, M. (1930 [2005]). The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge.
Author's Introduction and pp 13-38
Friday
Readings:
SECTION V: THE ECONOMICS OF CULTURE
Capital Theory
(1) Lachmann, L. (1978). Capital and its Structure.
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel.
pp. 35-85
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Week 6:
Monday
Readings:
Culture as Capital
(1) Cowen, T. (2002). Creative Destruction: How
Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
pp. 1-18.
(2) Lessig, L. (2008). Remix: Making Art and Commerce
Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Great Britain:
Bloomsbury.
pp. 1-30
Wednesday
Readings:
Culture as an informal institution
(1) Storr, V. (2008). "The Market as a Social Space: On
the meaningful extra-economic conversations that can
occur in markets" Review of Austrian Economics.
21(2&3): 135-50.
(2) Williamson, C. (2009). "Informal Institutions Rule:
Institutional Arrangements and Economic
Performance," Public Choice. 139(3): 371-87.
Friday
Reading Day
Spring Break
Week 7:
Monday
Readings:
SECTION VI: USING CULTURE FOR ECONOMICS
Culture as a source material
(1) Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1981). "The framing
of decisions and the psychology of choice," Science.
211(4481): 453-458.
(2) Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. New
York: Basic Books.
pp. 412-54.
Wednesday
Readings:
Cultural Institutions, Development and
Expectations
(1) Rajan, R. (2004). "The View From the IMF: Assume
Anarchy?" The Globalist. November 24.
(2) Djankov, S., Glaeser, E., La Porta, R., Lopez-deSilanes, F., and Shleifer, A. (2003). "The new
comparative economics," Journal of Comparative
Economics. 31: 595-619.
Friday
SECTION VII: THE ECONOMICS IN CULTURE
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Readings:
Economists producing culture.
(1) Roberts, R. (2000). The Invisible Heart: An Economic
Romance. Cambridge: MIT Press.
(2) Roberts, R. (2007). The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade
and Protectionism, Third Edition. New Jersey: Prentice
Hall.
Week 8:
Monday
Film Clips:
Behavioral Models: The Individual in Society on TV
House and Mad Men
Wednesday
Film Clips:
Social Science and Reality Television
Jersey Shore, Biggest Loser, Survivor
Friday -
SECTION VIII: SCIENCE FICTION
Sci-fi theory and history
(1) Shelly, M. (1818). Frankenstein or the Modern
Prometheus. E Books Directory.
Readings:
(2) Hanson, R. (unpublished). The Economics of Science
Fiction.
Week 9:
Monday
Readings:
Socialist Dystopia
(1) Miller, L. (2010). "Fresh Hell: What's behind the
boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?" The New
Yorker. June 14.
(2) Rand, A. (1961). Anthem. New York: Signet.
Wednesday
Film Clips:
Cyborgs
Terminator, Battlestar Galactica
Readings:
(1) Mirowski, P. (2002). Machine Dreams: Economics
Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. pp. 1-25
Friday Film Clips:
Super Powers and Time Travel
Heros, Watchmen, Superman
Readings:
(1) Weingast, B. (1995). "The Economic Role of Political
Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and
Economic Development," Journal of Law, Economics &
Organization. 11(1): 1-31.
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(2) Hamilton, A., Madison, J., and Jay, J. (1787 [2009]).
The Federalist Papers. New York: Oxford University
Press. Federalist 51: pp. 256-311.
Week 10:
Monday
Film Clips:
Zombies
Walking Dead, 28 Days later
Wednesday
Film Clips:
Aliens
District 9, Dances with Smurfs
Readings:
(1) Leinstar, M. (1945). First Contact.
Friday
SECTION IX APPLIED CULTURAL ECONOMICS
Cultural Economies
(1) Cowen, T. (2005). Markets and Cultural Voices:
Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 1-40.
Week 11:
Monday
Readings:
(2) Storr, V. (2004). Enterprising Slaves & Master
Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas.
New York: Peter Lang. pp. 42-75.
Culture in Crises: Disaster
(1) D'Amico, D. (2010). "Rock Me Like a Hurricane! How
music communities promote social capital adept for
recovery," in After Katrina: The Political Economy of
Disaster and Community Rebound. E. Chamlee-Wright
and V. Storr (eds.). Aldershot: Edward Elgar. pp. 126-40.
(2) Chamlee-Wright, E. and Storr, V. (2009). "'There's no
Place Life New Orleans': Sense of Place and Community
Recovery in the Ninth Ward After Hurricane Katrina,"
Journal of Urban Affairs. 31(5): 615-34.
Wednesday
Readings:
Underground
(1) Venkatesh, S. (2006). Off the Books: The
Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. pp. 91-165.
(2) D'Amico, D. and Block, W. (2007). "A Legal and
Economic Analysis of Graffiti," Humanomics. 23(1): 2938.
Friday Readings:
Foreign Affairs
(1) Boettke, P. and Coyne, C. (2007). "The Political
Economy of Forgiveneness," Society. 44(2): 53-59.
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Week 12:
Wednesday
Readings:
Oppression
(1) Fanon, F. (1961). The Wretched of the Earth. New
York: Grove Press. pp. 1-62.
(2) Storr, V. Enterprising Pirates. pp. 76-102.
Friday
Readings:
Isolation
(1) Zimbardo, P. (2007). The Lucifer Effect:
Understanding how good people turn evil. New York:
Random House. pp. 195-228.
(2) Rhodes, L. (2004). Total Confinement: Madness and
Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. Berkley:
University of California Press. pp. 163-190.
Week 13:
Monday
Readings:
The perception of Capitalism's effect on Culture
(1) Klein, N. (2000) No Logo. Great Britain: Flamingo.
pp. 104-203.
(2) Benjamin, W. (2008). The Work of Art in the Age
of its Technological Reproducibility. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. pp. 19-55.
Wednesday
Readings:
Malthusian Traps and Races
(1) Caplan, B. (2007), "Malthus on Stilts," Econlog.
(2) Clark, G. (2007). A Farewell to Alms: A Brief
Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. pp. 19-39
Friday -
Week 14:
Monday
Rational Optimism
(1) Lavoie, D. and Chamlee Wright, E. (2000). Culture
and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and
Morality of Business. London: Routledge.
Readings:
SECTION X: INDIVIDUALISM
More Individuals
(1) Simon, J. (1998). The Ultimate Resource II: People,
Materials, and Environment.
Chapter 4.
Wednesday
Diversity and Innovation
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Readings:
(1) Friedman, D. (2008). Future Imperfect: Technology
and Freedom in an Uncertain World. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
pp. 248-322.
Friday
Readings:
Entrepreneurship
(1) Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success.
New York: Little Brown Book.
pp. 35-68.
Week 15:
Monday
Readings:
Wednesday
Readings:
Cosmopolitan Tolerance
(1) McCloskey, Bourgeoisie Virtue
pp. 231-50.
A Cultural Political Economy
(1) Lessig, Remix
pp: 253-94.
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