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Frederica Shockley Butte 603A TT 12:00-1:30 898-6138 shockley@rocko.csuchico.edu http://www.csuchico.edu/~shockley/ http://www.csuchico.edu/~shockley/syllabi/SYL_fs295s98.html |
| Instructor: Office: Office Hours: Phone: E-Mail: Home Page: Syllabus |
Frederica Shockley Butte 603A TT 12:00-1:30 898-6138 shockley@rocko.csuchico.edu http://www.csuchico.edu/~shockley/ http://www.csuchico.edu/~shockley/syllabi/SYL_fs295s98.html |
Writing Requirement: You need to complete three book reviews that are five to eight pages each. They must be produced with a word processor. You may choose from the list of books below or you may select another book with my approval. Books of exceptional length, or difficulty, will count as two. Each review should include: (1) a summary of the work; (2) an evaluation; and (3) a description of the relationship of the book to the discipline and to your experience. Two copies of each report must be submitted. One copy will be placed on reserve for peer evaluation and then retained for department files.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of WEST and Econ 2 & 3.
Policies Regarding Adds and Drops: Students may drop for any reason during the first 2 weeks of class. After that you need a documented "serious and compelling" reason. You may add if space permits during the first 2 weeks of class. During the third and fourth week, you will need to receive my permission to add. Students cannot add after the fourth week of class. The state will not pay the University for your share of the cost nor will the department receive any credit for your participation if you add after the fourth week.
Policy Regarding Disabled Students: Disabled students are encouraged to meet with me during the first week of class to jointly determine how their specific needs can be best accommodated.
Consultation with the instructor is encouraged throughout the semester. Classes will meet in Butte 601, the Economics Department Conference Room. If you cannot attend a scheduled class meeting, please let me know before class.
First class meeting: (5-6 p.m., Tuesday, 2/3/98) You need to write a proposal that lists the books you plan to read and your goals for the class.
Second class meeting: (5-6 p.m.,Tuesday, 3/3/98) You will evaluate each other’s work in progress. You will also present oral summaries of your progress and your evaluations of the material you have read during the first half of the semester. Your first book review is due.
Third class meeting: (5-6 p.m., Tuesday, 4/7/98) You need to write evaluations of course activities in which you stress the relationship of your chosen literature to the discipline and to your course of study. Your second book review is due.
Fourth class meeting: (5-6 p.m., Tuesday, 5/5/98) Your third book review is due.
Grades: I will grade your book reviews and your in-class assignments. Book reviews will be due the first Tuesday of each month as noted above. Late work will be penalized at the rate of 4% per weekday up to a maximum of 40%. Any incomplete papers must be completed by 5 p.m. Tuesday, 5/19/98.
I will ask each of you to select a 4 digit code, and I will post your grades with the code on a web page immediately after grading each assignment.
At the end of the semester I will take the average of your scores and apply the following scale (in percent) to determine your grade for the course:
> 90 | A
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Allett, John; New Liberalism; The Political Economy of J. A. Hobson
Baran, Paul and Paul Sweezy; Monopoly Capital
Barlett, Donald and Steele, James; America Who Stole The Drama
Barnet, Richard J.; The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity
Bazelton, David; The Paper Economy
Blalock, Humbert; Causal Inferences in Nonexperimental Research
Block, Fred; Postindustrial Possibilities
Bluestone, B. & Harrison; The Deindustrialization of America
Bluestone, Irving and Barry; Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business
Boston Study Group; Winding Down, The Price of Defense
Boulding, Kenneth; Ecodynamics
Boulding, Kenneth; Evolutionary Economics
Boulding, Kenneth; The Economy of Love and Fear
Boulding, Kenneth; Three Faces of Power
Bowles, S., Gordon, D., and Weisskopf, T.; After the Wasteland
Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert; Democracy & Capitalism
Braudel, Fernand; The Wheels of Commerce
Braudel, Fernand; The Structures of Everyday Life
Braudel, Fernand; The Perspective of the World
Carnoy, Martin & Shearer, Derek; Economic Democracy
Cohen, Joshua & Rogers, Joel; On Democracy
Commoner, Barry; The Closing Circle
Commoner, Barry; Making Peace with the Planet
Commoner, Barry; The Poverty of Power
Commons, J. R.; Institutional Economics (2 vols)
Commons, J. R.; The Legal Foundations of Capitalism
Coombs, H.C.; The Return of Scarcity
Darity, William, Jr.; The Loan Pushers
Domhoff, G.W.; The Power Elite and the State
Dorfman, Joseph; Thorstein Veblen and His America
Dugger, William; Corporate Hegemony
Ehrenreich, B.; Fear of Falling
Etzioni, Amitai; The Moral Dimensions Toward a New Economics
Fay, Stephen; Beyond Greed
Fischer, David Hackett; The Great Wave
Fiske, Alan Page; Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations
Frank, Robert; Choosing the Right Pond
Frank, Robert; Passion Without Reason
Freeman/Medoff; What Do Unions Do?
Fromm, Erich; Beyond the Chains of Illusion
Galbraith, John K.; Economic Development in Perspective
Galbraith, John K.; The Culture of Contentment
Galbraith, John K.; A Life in Our Times
Galbraith, John K.; American Capitalism
Galbraith, John K.; Economics in Perspective
Galbraith, John K.; The New Industrial State
Galbraith, John K.; The Affluent Society
Galbraith, John K.; The Anatomy of Power
Galbraith, John K.; Economics and the Public Purpose
Glick, James; Chaos
Goldstene, Paul; The Collapse of Liberal Empire
Gottleib, Manuel; A Theory of Economic Systems
Green, Philip; The Pursuit of Inequality
Greider, William; Who Will Tell the People - The Betrayal of American Democracy
Greider, William; Secrets of the Temple
Greider, William; The Trouble With Money: A Prescription for America's
Gruchy, Alan; Contemporary Economic Thought
Gruchy, Alan; Modern Economic Thought
Harrington, Michael; The Politics at God's Funeral
Harrington, Michael; The Twilight of Capitalism
Harrington, Michael; The Accidental Century
Hayden, Tom; The American Future
Heilbroner, Robert; The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
Held, Virginia; Property, Profits and Economic Justice
Hobson, John A.; Work and Wealth
Hyde, Lewis; The Gift
Inglehart, Ronald F.et.al; The North American Trajectory: Cultural, Economic and Political Ties among the U.S, Canada and Mexico
Kennedy, Paul; The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Keynes, John Maynard; Essays in Persuasion
Keynes, John Maynard; The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and
Kohn, Alfie; No Contest; The Case Against Competition
Kolko, Gabriel; The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of U.S. History, 1900-1916
Kozol,Jonathan; Savage Inequalities
Krause, Elliott A.; Division of Labor - A Political Perspective
Krugman, Paul; Peddling Prosperitx
Landes, David; The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change 1750 to
Lee, Dwight R. and McKenzie, Richard B.; Regulating Government
Levy, Frank; Dollars and Dreams: the American Income Distribution
Lindblom, Charles; Politics and Markets
Magaziner,Ira; The Silent War
Mander, Jerry ed.; The Case Against The Global Economy
Marcuse, Herbert; One Dimensional Man
Marx, Karl; Capital: Volume 1
Maslow, Abraham; The Psychology of Science
Matson, Floyd; The Broken Image: Man, Science and Society
Mayer, Martin; The Bankers (new edition)
McCloskey, Donald; The Rhetoric of Economics
McFarland, Floyd; Economic Philosophy and American Problems
McKenzie, Richard B.; The American Job Machine
McWilliams, Carey; Factories in the Fields
Melman, Seymour; Profits without Production
Minsky, Hyman; Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
Mischel, Lawrence and Frankel, David M.; The State of Working America
Mokyr, Joel; The Lever of Riches, Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
Moore, Basil; Horizontalists and Verticalists: The Macroeconomics of
Morgan, Dan; Merchants of Grain
Mumford, Lewis; Technics and Civilization
Mumford, Lewis; Technics & Human Development
Mumford, Lewis; The Story of Utopias
Mumford, Lewis; The Culture of Cities
Mumford, Lewis; The Pentagon of Power
O'Connor, James; The Fiscal Crisis of the State
Payer, Cheryl; World Bank, The
Payer, Cheryl; Lent and Lost
Phillips, Kevin; The Politics of Rich and Poor
Piven, Frances Fox & Cloward, Richard A.; Regulating the Poor
Piven, Frances Fox & Cloward, Richard A.; The New Class War
Polanyi, Karl; The Great Transformation
Polanyi, Karl; The Livelihood of Man
Postman, Neil; Technopoly
Pringle, Peter and James Spigelman; The Nuclear Barons
Reddy, Wm.; The Rise of Market Culture
Rifkin, Jeremy; Biosphere Politics
Rosenberg, Nathan, and Birdsell, L.E., Jr.; How the West Grew Rich
Roy, William G.; Socializing Capital; The Rise of The Large Industrial Corporation in America
Schmookler, Andrew Bard; The Illusion of Choice - How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny
Schorr, Juliet; The Overworked American
Schwarz, John E. and Volgy, Thomas 1992; The Forgotten Americans: 30 Million Working Poor in the Land ......
Sellers, Charles; The Market Revolution
Sklair, Leslie; Sociology of the Global System
Smith, Adam; An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Solo, Robert; The Positive State
Stanfield, James Ronald; John Kenneth Galbraith
Tawney, R. H.; Equality
Tawney, R. H.; The Acquisitive Society
Tawney, R. H.; Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Thurow, Lester; Head to Head
Tool, Marc; The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political
Turgeon, Lynn; Bastard Keynesignism
Veblen, Thorstein; The Instinct of Workmanship
Veblen, Thorstein; The Theory of Business Enterprise
Veblen, Thorstein; The Theory of the Leisure Class
Veblen, Thorstein; The Engineers and the Price System
Ward, Dwayne; Toward a Critical Economics
Weber, Max; The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Williams, William A.; The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Williams, William A.; The Contours of American History
Williams, William A.; The Great Evasion
Wolfson, Martin H.; Financial Crisis