Sophomore Economics Tutorial: Markets, Welfare & the State
CSS 220
Spring 2025
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02
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This tutorial takes a topical approach to studying economic ideas and policy. We start with writers who drew either the admiration or ire of Adam Smith. These include the scholastics, mercantilists, and physiocrats. Next, we compare the classical school with competing schools of economic thought from Marxian, utilitarian, and Austrian to neoclassical and Keynesian. Throughout the course, we read radical critiques from the political right and left, touching upon monetarist theory, supply-side economics, institutional, behavioral and evolutionist schools. We see how the policy and economic debates reflect the socio-economic struggles of their time and shed light on the controversies of our own. |
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| Credit: 1.5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ECON |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - 2nd Trimester |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Boushey, Heather. UNBOUND: HOW INEQUALITY CONSTRICTS OUR ECONOMY AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT
IT. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Phillipon, Thomas. THE GREAT REVERSAL: HOW AMERICA GAVE UP ON FREE MARKETS. Cambridge, MA:
The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2019.
Reich, Robert B. SAVING CAPITALISM: FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW. New York: Vintage Books, 2016.
Schumpeter, Joseph. CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, & DEMOCRACY. New York: Harper Perennial.
Stiglitz, Joseph. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS REVISITED: ANTI-GLOBALIZATION IN THE ERA OF
TRUMP. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1923.
Other Readings TBA
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly Papers at the beginning of each class meeting |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Course open to CSS Sophomores only. |
| Instructor(s): Rayack,Wendy Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC309; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 11 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
| SECTION 02 - 3rd Trimester |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBD |
Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly Papers at the beginning of each class meeting |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Course open to CSS Sophomores only. |
| Instructor(s): Rayack,Wendy Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC309; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 11 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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