| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1: Origins and Variation in Economic Relations | ||
| 1 | First Class | |
| 2 | Economic Anthropology 1 | |
| 3 | Economic Anthropology 2 | |
| Unit 2: Classical Social Contract Theory and its Discontents | ||
| 4 | Social Contract Theory 1: Hobbes | |
| 5 | Hobbes: Context & Critique | |
| 6 | Locke on Property | |
| 7 | Locke: Context & Critique | |
| 8 | Social Contract Theory 2: Rousseau | |
| 9 | Wollstonecraft | |
| 10 | Rousseau: Context & Critique | |
| 11 | More Context & Critique | Guest lecturer: Anne Boyer, philosopher and poet at Kansas City Art Institute |
| Unit 3: Capitalism and its Discontents | ||
| 12 | Capitalism | |
| 13 | Marx 1 | |
| 14 | Marx & Engles | |
| 15 | Movie Day | First paper due |
| 16 | Marx 2 | |
| Unit 4: Global Capital and Other Structures | ||
| 17 | Global Perspectives on Reproductive Labor | |
| 18 | Imperialism & Settler Colonialism (anti / de / postcolonial reception of Marx) | |
| 19 | Slavery and the Slave Trade | |
| Unit 5: Applied Problems in Political Economy | ||
| 20 | Commodification | |
| 21 | Commodification (cont.) | |
| 22 | Public Goods | |
| 23 | Public Goods (cont.) | |
| 24 | Environmental Economics | |
| 25 | Environmental Economics (cont.) | |
| 26 | Last Class | Event Response paper & Second paper due |