8/25

Introduction to class

Introductions

8/27

The related environmental and economic crises: The Emergence of the World Capitalist System

Reading: The Vulnerable Planet...Intro, 1, 2

Locke…..Selections from the Second Treatise on Government….Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 as well as 6, 7, 8, and 9 (pp.461-466 and 474-485 in Cahn’s Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy)

9/1

Theories of Development: Modernization, Marx, and Dependency

Locke…. Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19 in the Second Treatise on Government aw well “Letter Concerning Toleration” (pp. 492-513 in CPMP)

9/3

Colonialism and the World System

Reading: Colonialism, Chapters 1-4

Locke…..Chapter 5 in the Second Treatise on Government (pp. 467-474 in CPMP)

9/8

…….Journals Collected……..
The Colonial Economic, Political and Social System

Reading: Colonialism, Chapters 5-7

Selections from Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (pp. 633-651 in CPMP)

9/10

Colonialist Ideology and Indigenous Cultures

Reading: Colonialism, Chapters 8-9

Read on the web: UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights and
UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

9/15

Colonialism and the Environment

Reading: The Vulnerable Planet,  Chapter 5

Indigenous Thought – Photocopies…Guest speaker

9/17

Marx on the Contradictions of Capitalism
Reading: Chapter 3 in Engels’ “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” in CPMP

Marx….Selections from the 1844 Manuscripts (pp. 832-839 in CPMP) plus “Summary of the Theory of Alienation” on the website

9/22

…..Journals collected…..

The Industrial Revolution, the Environment and Rise of Environmentalism in the West

Reading: The Vulnerable Planet, Chapters 3-4

Marx…Selections from The Communist Manifesto (pp 848-859 in CPMP)

9/24

Discussion and Review of World Systems Theory

Marx, Selections from The German Ideology (pp. 839- 848 in CPMP) and “Summary of the Theory of Ideology” on the website

9/29

Exam

Group meetings

10/1

Globalization in the Post World War II era

Reading: Colonialism, Chapter 10

Also review:

World System Since 1945

Overview of Classical Liberalism and its heirs

10/6

Globalization and Its Discontents: A Liberal Critique of Neoliberal Globalization

Reading: Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work, preface-Chapter 3.

Liberal Perspectives on Distributive Justice….Rawls….Selections from A Theory of Justice, pp.  1038-1058

10/8

The History of the Shift from Liberalism to Neoliberalism in the World Economy

……Journals collected……

Conservative/Neo-liberal Perspectives on Distributive Justice…. Nozick…. Selections from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 1064-1074

10/13

Trade and Development in the Global System

Reading: Stiglitz, Chapters 3 - 4

Nozick continued

10/15

Ownership and Development of Natural Resources

Reading: Stiglitz, chapter 5

The Right to Healthcare Debate...Read a summary of President Obama's position on healthcare....Read Obama's Speech to Congress

10/20

Film: The Corporation

Healthcare debate continued

10/22

Corporate Power, Debt and Economic Justice

Reading: Stiglitz, chapters 7-9.……Journals collected……

Marxist Perspectives…. Schweickart’s After Capitalism, Preface, Chapters 1 and 3

10/27

Stiglitz continued

Schweickart continued, Chap. 4 and 5

10/29

Stiglitz continued

Schweickart continued, Chap. 6 and 7

11/3

Group meetings

11/5

Film: Bullshit

Finish discussion of Schweickart

11/10

Finish Stiglitz

Overview of debates on the environment….Article from Environmental Philosophy by Singer

11/12

Contemporary articles on Economics, Agriculture and the Environment
Article by Foster
 

Articles from Environmental Philosophy by Leopold and photocopied article by Deloria

11/17

……..Journals collected……

"Giant Pool of Money" from This American Life.....You can download a transcript, but we strongly suggest that you listen to it also.

Articles from Environmental Philosophy by Anderson and Leal, Hawken, and O'Connor

11/19

Contemporary Articles

Ecofeminism….Article by Cuomo

11/24

Special Program with Jake Harris at 11:00.

Shiva’s Earth Democracy, Introduction, Chapters 1

12/1

Shiva continued

12/3

Presentations

Presentations

12/8

Presentations

Presentations

12/10

Exam

12/15

Party