Introduction

September 9

The military-industrial complex

September 16

Mills, The Power Elite.

The rise of "big business"

September 23

Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.

Scott, Power, chaps. 1-2.

Capitalist class networks

September 30

Domhoff, Who Rules America? chaps. 2-3.

Leslie Sklair, "Globalizing Class Theory." Chap. 2 in The Transnational Capitalist Class (Blackwell, 2001).

Corporate ecologies

October 7

1-page term-paper proposals due.

Hauter, Foodopoly.

October 12-20

FALL BREAK.

How hegemony works

October 21

Part one of term paper due: case description and analysis.

Scott, Power, chaps. 3, 5, and pp. 135-148.

The revolving door: business and government

October 28

Domhoff, Who Rules America? chaps. 4-9.

Corporate social responsibility

November 4

Himmelstein, Looking Good and Doing Good.

November 11

Presentations of term-paper case studies.

November 18

Presentations of term-paper case studies (cont.).

Neoliberalism in practice

November 25

Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

Investor capitalism

December 2

Gerald F. Davis, "The New Financial Capitalism" and "Financial Markets and Corporate Governance." Chaps. 1-2 in Managed by the Markets (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Michael Useem, "When Investors Challenge Company Performance." Chap. 2 in Investor Capitalism (Basic, 1996).

Neoliberalism as ideology

December 9

Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism.

Sunday, December 15: last day of study week

Term papers due.