1

9/2

Prologue: Perspectives and Values

2

9/7

What kind of a country is this?

3

9/9

The market: how it is supposed to work

4

9/14

The market: How it actually works

5

9/16

The market: How it actually works

6

9/21

The environment

7

9/23

Transportation

8

9/28

Consumerism

WMA - part 1

WMA - part 2

MP3 - part 1

MP3 - part 2

9

9/30

Health Care

10

10/5

High Road Capitalism

11

10/12

Thinking about Fairness and Inequality

12

10/14

Class

13

10/19

Persistent poverty and Rising Inequality

14

10/21

Ending Poverty in America

15

10/26

Racial Inequality

16

10/28

Racial Inequality, continued

17

11/2

Gender inequality

WMA

 (incomplete)

MP3

(incomplete)

slides (Wright)

Slides (Conti)

18

11/4

Gender inequality, continued

slides (Wright)

Slides (Conti)

19

11/11

Democracy : how it works

20

11/16

Democracy, continued

21

11/18

Elections and voting

22

11/23

Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State

23

11/30

Corporate Control of the Media

24

12/2

Militarism and Empire

25

12/7

Labor Unions

26

12/9

Democracy from below

27

12/14

Conclusion: Possible Futures