OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE AND REQUIRED READINGS FROM SPRING 2000

WEEK:

1. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom chapters 1, 2, 10-13
2. Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
3. Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
4. David Kuttner Everything for Sale or Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor
5. David Kuttner Everything for Sale or Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor
6. Michael Katz
or
Piven and Cloward
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

Breaking of the American Social Compact
7. Michael Katz
or
Piven and Cloward
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

Breaking of the American Social Compact
8. Frances Piven and Richard Cloward The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences
9. Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism
10. Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism
11. Jürgen Habermas "Technology and Science as `Ideology,'" in Toward a Rational Society
12. Jürgen Habermas "Technology and Science as `Ideology,'" in Toward a Rational Society
13. David Schweickart Beyond Capitalism
14. David Schweickart Beyond Capitalism