Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
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 [...]
I am reading an article from naked capitalism-an original post from The Huffington Post. This article echoes Jon Steward’s recent criticisms of CNBC superstar Jim Cramer and the entire network for acting like market cheerleaders rather than financial journalists. Thomas Frank, a Wall Street journal columnist, argues that financial journalism was an upward failure.
The reasons [...]
I am reading an interesting article from Radical Perspectives on the Crisis. Nouriel Roubini, the celebrity NYU professor of economics, who is best known as “Doctor Doom” argues that nationalizing our failing banks temporarily is a more “market friendly solution”.
When I and others put it in the context of the Swedish approach [of the 1990s] [...]
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