The Politics and Economics of Class ((3 Credits))

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This study is intended to provide a background in the figures who have thought critically about the way the world has come to be structured. The study will begin with a general survey of economic philosophers and move on to study the individual works of specific thinkers over time. We will move through dissident economists and economic sociologists such as Marx, Veblen, Polanyi, Selma James, and come to the present with David Harvey, Naomi Klein, and Robert Brenner. All of these thinkers help us to see and question the economic order that is so often portrayed as natural and inevitable in our current social language but is in actuality a system created by specific historical forces and politics. This study is intended to help students interested in both history and current affairs find alternate models through which to view and approach political and economic issues.