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Dear Students, I will assign a book to you during the first lecture.
You will need to read it. Most books are available below. Please write an essay of at least 7 standard, double spaced, typed
pages with the following content -- MAKE SURE TO FOOTNOTE YOUR WORK AND TO ENCLOSE QUOTES IN QUOTATION MARKS! --- DUE DATE:
TURNED IN BEFORE ATTENDANCE IS TAKEN AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON NOVEMBER 9, 2010 OR TURNED IN SOONER VIA EMAIL (PASTED IN
THE EMAIL ITSELF AND ALSO ATTACHED AS AN ATTACHMENT) (if you fail to copy/paste the essay into the email itself and I cannot
open the attachment, the essay will be graded late). Please use Roman numerals in your essay as below:
I. Title, author of book, your name.
II. A brief summary of the main arguments and/or subject matter of the book (no more
than one standard page)
III. ATTACK at least 7 arguments from the text
WITH YOUR OWN ADDITIONAL ARGUMENTS and please number these arguments I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII.
IV. Comment on whether or not you would recommend this book to somebody else and why.
V. Any additional comments or points you would like to make, if any. Thank you.
When Money Dies by Ferguson
The Order of Things by Foucault
Charles Mackay, MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds
Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace
Chandler, Alfred The Visible Hand (on reserve in the library)
Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class
Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
O'Brien, An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
Clarkson, With A View To Their Ultimate Emancipation; And On The Practicability, The Safety, And The Advantages Of The Latter
Measure
White, Fiat Money Inflation in France
E. Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (please read them all)
Bagehot, Lombard Street
Hendrick, The Age of Big Business, A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry
Sinclair, The Money Changers
Mill, Utilitarianism
ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical (on the poor basically) by Benjamin Rumford
J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Sir William Petty
Speculations from Political Economy by C. B. Clarke
Dying of Money by Parsson
try this link for Wells first
The Shape of Things to Come (1933) by H. G. Wells
B.M. Anderson, Social Value
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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