Introduction
February 1
Jane Mayer, "New Koch," The New Yorker, January 25, 2016.
The military-industrial complex
February 8
Mills, The Power Elite.
The rise of "big business"
February 15
Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.
Scott, Power, chaps. 1-2.
Capitalist class networks
February 22
"Republican Billionaires Just Can't Seem To Buy This Election" (New York, December 13, 2015).
Reich, Saving Capitalism.
Scott, Power, chap. 3.
Campus lecture: Thursday, February 25
Brian Obach, "Organic and the Road to Sustainable Agriculture: Bridge or a Roadblock?"
Corporate ecologies
February 29
Obach, Organic Struggle.
Campus lecture: Monday, February 29
Scott Kurashige, "Detroit and America's Possible Futures."
Neoliberalism
March 7
Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Scott, Power, chaps. 4-5.
March 12-27
FALL BREAK.
The charismatic CEO
March 28
1-page term-paper proposals due.
Welch, Jack: Straight from the Gut.
Scott, Power, pp. 148-54.
Globalization and the Davos class
April 4
Paul Krugman, "Trade, Labor and Politics," New York Times, March 28, 2016.
Neil Irwin, "The Trade Deficit Isn't a Scorecard, and Cutting It Won't Make America Great Again," New York Times, March 27, 2016.
Nicholas Confessore, "How the G.O.P. Elite Lost its Voters to Donald Trump," New York Times, March 28, 2016.
George, Shadow Sovereigns, Introduction, chaps. 2-5.
April 11
Part one of term paper due: case description and analysis.
Give 15-minute presentations of case studies in class.
April 18
Presentations of term-paper case studies (cont.).
Marketing corporate power
April 25
Kelly McDonald, How to Market to People Not Like You (Wiley, 2011), 3-52, 112-79.
Mara Einstein, Compassion Inc.: How Corporate America Blurs the Line Between What we Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help (University of California Press, 2012), 1-68, 101-29.
Peter Dauvergne & Genevieve Lebaron, Protest Inc: The Corporatization of Activism (Polity, 2014), 108-56.
Jason Farbman, "We Don't Want Mark Zuckerberg's Charity," Jacobin, December 7, 2015.
Scott, Power, chap. 6.
May 2
First draft of term papers due for in-class discussion and peer review.
Financial capitalism
May 9
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).
Johnson and Kwak, 13 Bankers: Introduction, chaps 3-7, Epilogue.
Tuesday, May 16: last day of study week
Final draft of term papers due.
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