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Sept. 6 |
Victim Compensation Fund Exercise |
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Sept. 10 |
Chapters I-V, Gatsby |
reading questions |
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Sept. 13 |
Finish Gatsby |
tba |
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Sept. 17 |
Bellah, et al., The Good Society, pp. 3-18. |
tba |
| Tuesday 18 September 2007. First Paper Due |
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Sept. 20 |
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in
America, pages 1-119. |
tba |
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Sept. 24 |
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in
America, pages 119-221. |
Emma, Juan, and Kelsey lead discussion. |
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Sept. 27 |
Mosaics of Inequality, from Bowles, Edwards, and Roosevelt,
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change (3rd
edition) 2004. |
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Oct. 1 |
Julian Lamont, Distributive
Justice, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. |
"Free Trade" in-class exercise. Introduction to Gini Coefficients. |
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Oct. 4 |
Inequalities or Differences handout. |
Ice Cream Lottery in-class exercise. |
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Oct. 8 |
John G. Culhane, Sandbags Full
of Money, Dissent, Fall 2003. |
Phil, Sam, and Katie lead discussion. |
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Oct. 11 |
Morris Dees and Ellen Bowden, Courtroom
Victories: Taking Hate Groups to Court. Dan Baum, Deluged:
When Katrina hit, where were the police? The New Yorker,
January 9, 2006. Dan Baum, The
Lost Year: Behind the failure to rebuild, The New Yorker,
August 21, 2006. |
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Problem Set Due |
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Oct. 15 |
Thomas Schelling, On the Ecology of Micromotives. The Public
Interest, 25, 69-98. 1971. |
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Oct. 18 |
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Oct. 22 |
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Oct. 15 |
Faculty Retreat. No Class. |
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Oct. 29 |
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Nov. 1 |
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Nov. 5 |
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Nov. 8 |
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Nov. 12 |
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Nov. 15 |
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