ANNOUNCEMENT: next week we will meet online. Please send me an email (ajmatthew.chula@gmail.com) with your Chula email address so I can make sure your are part of the group on Microsoft Teams. You will be able to access Teams by going to office.com and logging in with your Chula email/login credentials. I will send you the code for our Teams group in response to your email.
Here are some of the preliminary notes for next week’s discussion on the Process of Urbanization
In two weeks we will discuss the Ed Glaeser paper, Are Cities Dying? The discussion questions can be found here.
In three weeks we will discuss chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Matt Kahn’s book Green Cities. The discussion questions can be found here.
Documentary: The Corporation (2003), based on Joel Bakan’s bestseller The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Interview: The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company, William Dalrymple, historian and author of The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. Published by the Letters and Politics podcast (10 March 2022).
Full Interview: Can Democracy and Capitalism Co-exist? Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin, political philosopher and author of Democracy, Inc. and Politics and Vision. He introduces us to the concept of “managed democracy” and “inverted totalitarianism.” Published by The Real News Network (22 October 2014).
[Article] Adam Schrader (2022) “Pandemic creates new pharma, food billionaires,” UPI, May 23. “The pandemic, full of sorrow and disruption for most of humanity, has been one of the best times in recorded history for the billionaire class.”
[Report] Oxfam Media Briefing, “Profiting From Pain,” 23 May 2022. Davos 2022 Part 2. “Billionaire wealth has soared during the COVID-19 pandemic as companies in the food, pharma, energy, and tech sectors have cashed in. Meanwhile millions of people around the world are facing a cost-of-living crisis due to the continuing effects of the pandemic and the rapidly rising costs of essentials, including food and energy. Inequality, already extreme before COVID-19, has reached new levels. There is an urgent need for governments to implement highly progressive taxation measures that in turn must be used to invest in powerful and proven measures to reduce inequalities.”
