Introduction
September 6
"Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say," New York Times, August 19, 2019.
The military-industrial complex
September 13
Mills, The Power Elite (esp. chaps. 1-10, 12).
A history of big business
September 20
Ho, Karen. 2018. "Markets, Myths, and Misrecognitions: Economic Populism in the Age of Financialization and Hyperinequality." Economic Anthropology 5: 148-150.
Porter, Gregg. 1973. Chaps. 1-2 in The Rise of Big Business: 1860-1910. New York: Crowell.
Marchand, Roland. 1998. "The 1930s: Save the System." Chap. 6 in Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
The corporate class
September 27
Domhoff, Who Rules America, Introduction and chaps. 1-3.
Scott, John. 2001. Chaps. 1-2 in Power. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Capitalist policy networks
October 4
Domhoff, Who Rules America, chaps. 4-9.
"The Deep Industry Ties of Trump’s Deregulation Teams," New York Times, July 11, 2017.
Corporate Social Responsibility
October 13
"Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray," New York Times, August 20, 2019.
David Gelles, "The Moral Voice of Corporate America," New York Times, August 19, 2017.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Walmart’s C.E.O. Steps Into the Gun Debate. Other C.E.O.s Should Follow." New York Times, September 3, 2019.
Himmelstein, Jerome. 1997. Chaps. 2 and 5 in Looking Good & Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
"Why Corporate Social Responsibility is 'Dead'," CNN Money Switzerland, January 15, 2019.
Neoliberalism
October 18
Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, chaps. 1-3, 6-7.
Cahill, Damien and Martijn Konings. 2017. "Corporate Power." Pp. 93-108 in Neoliberalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
October 19-27
FALL BREAK.
Scorching the earth
November 1
1-page term-paper proposals due.
Leonard, Kochland (esp. Preface, chaps. 1-4, 6, 11, 13-14, and 16-25).
Watch Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix: Vol. 4, August 18, 2019, "Why Your Public Transportation Sucks."
Financial capitalism
November 8
Foroohar, Makers and Takers (esp. Author's Note, Introduction, chap. 1, pp. 62-71, 90-99, 121-127, 133-142, 152-161, 179-191, 210-215, 222-234, 237-243, 248-255, 285-291, chap. 11).
November 15
Part one of term paper due: case description and analysis.
Give 15-minute presentations of case studies in class.
November 22
NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
Higher education for profit
November 29
Cottam, Lower Ed.
"She Left the Education Dept. for Groups It Curbed. Now She’s Back, With Plans." New York Times, June 9, 2019.
The new economy
December 6
Part two of term paper due: theoretical hypothesis due.
Snricek, Platform Capitalism.
Elizabeth Warren, "Here’s how we can break up Big Tech." Medium (blog), March 8, 2019.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Conglomerates Didn't Die. They Look Like Amazon," New York Times, June 19, 2017.
"Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant," New York Times, August 30, 2017.
Robert B. Reich, Saving Capitalism (Knopf, 2015), 16-58, 153-167.
What is to be done?
Wednesday, December 11
Readings TBA, as selected by the class.
Sunday, December 15: last day of study week
Final draft of term paper due.
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