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. Kevin Phillips The Politics of Rich and Poor pp. 1-115 and
(recommended: Michael Best and William Connolly, The Politicized Economy)
5. Kevin Phillips The Politics of Rich and Poor pp. 1-115 and
(recommended: Michael Best and William Connolly, The Politicized Economy)
6. Edward Berkowitz America's Welfare State
7. Edward Berkowitz America's Welfare State
8. Holly Sklar Chaos or Community
9. Holly Sklar Chaos or Community
10. Frances Piven and Richard Cloward The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences
11. Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism
12. Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism
13. David Schweickart Against Capitalism
14. David Schweickart Against Capitalism