Winter Selected Topics
PECO 5502W/PSCI 5502W/SOCI 5505W
Capitalism(s), Culture, and Heterogeneity
Instructor: David Blaney
The seminar explores two themes: the operation of finance capital in our century and the structure of global production and logistics, looking at the logic of broad structures and processes and work that focuses on embedded, spatially localized performance of finance and supply chains.
Tuesdays, 11:30-2:30
PSCI 5915W
Topic: Political Economic Thought on Work, Wealth, and Well-Being
Instructor: David Blaney
Readings from Smith, Hegel, Marx, Jevons, Marshall, Veblen and Keynes paired with literature on the transformation of work from the 19th to 21st century, construction of “the economy” and national wealth, the relation of wealth to social and individual well-being, consumerism, happiness, and community economies.
Thursdays, 11:30-2:30