1

9/4

Prologue: Perspectives and Values

2

9/6

What kind of a country is this?

3

9/11

The market: how it is supposed to work

4

9/13

The market: How it actually works

5

9/18

The market: How it actually works

6

9/20

The environment

7

9/25

Transportation

8

9/27

Consumerism

9

10/2

Health Care

10

10/4

Finance             READINGS

11

10/9

High Road Capitalism

12

10/16

Thinking about Fairness and Inequality

13

10/18

Class

14

10/23

Persistent poverty and Rising Inequality

15

10/25

Ending Poverty in America

16

10/30

Racial Inequality

17

11/1

Racial Inequality

18

11/6

Gender inequality

19

11/8

Gender Inequality

20

11/15

Democracy : how it works

21

11/20

Elections and voting

22

11/27

Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State

23

11/29

Corporate Control of the Media

24

12/4

Militarism and Empire

25

12/6

Labor Unions

26

12/11

Democracy from below

27

12/13

Conclusion: Possible Futures