Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
This is a very interesting article by John Clegg. It is from the radical perspectives website. It is a case report on homelessness in Sacramento. It seems like homelessness has become normalized in the U.S.
The demographics for the U.S. showed that there are 6,600 new evictions every day; one occurs every 13 seconds.[4] At [...]
Mattick: “Ups and Downs – The Economic Crisis (pt. 3)”
http://sites.google.com/site/radicalpers…
This articles focuses on understanding the “business cycles” of our country. The United States has been going through “Boom and Bust” cycles ever since the colonial era. Building up to a strong economy and then failing only to become stronger a certain period later was thought [...]
Neoliberal educational reforms
In the article, Neoliberalism and education reform, E. Wayne Ross and Rich Gibson argue that public education is a key target of the neoliberal project because of its market size, its centrality to the economy and its potential challenge to corporate globalization.
Neoliberal educational reforms emphasize opening up the educational services market to [...]
Four crises of modern capitalism
In the article, four crises of the contemporary World Capitalist System, William K. Tabb examines the four areas of crisis in modern capitalism: Financialization and financial meltdown, U.S. led Imperialism is losing its predominant influence, the rise of new centers of power, and resources and sustainability.
The first problem is the [...]
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“Financial: A primer” helped me understand what financialization [...]
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Elizabeth Warren on Bill Maher
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/05/elizabeth-warren-on-bill-maher.html
Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard professor and the head of the “Congressional Oversight Panel”. This organization is a branch of the greater program known as “Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program”. The Congressional Oversight Panel, and subsequently Elizabeth Warren, is charged with the role of reviewing the state of various [...]
The Commercial Games: How Commercialism is Overrunning the Olympics
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=…
Weissman speaks about the excessive commercialism in the modern Olympic games. He insists that the event that was once used to bring nations together in the spirit if competition is now simply an excuse for companies to overwhelm spectators and athletes alike with advertisements.
“A record 63 companies [...]
In an article in the New York Times, China is thinking about going to electric and hybrid cars. So i think we all saw the movie in class… what happened to the electric car?! The US totally didnt go for the idea after a couple of years that it was out in the market. will [...]
So my topic is the auto industry and i found this article in Naked Capitalism which is interesting and somehow is going to help me with my paper… i just havent tied it in yet…
In the article Treasury Soliciting Bankruptcy Funding for GM, Chrysler, is talking about how the TARP has given Citi $45 Billion [...]
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