Prep
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Economic Racism from the New Deal to Reaganomics’; ‘Income and Wealth Disparities’; Chasing the American Dream’; ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’
- Attendance
- Overview: Annotated Bibliography Assignment
- Preview: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
- Q&A: TBA
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond, ‘In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation’, Times Sunday Magazine (14 August 2019). Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.
