Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
This was an article on the radical perspectives website which discusses Carl Marx’s theory of fictitious capital. As we all know Carl Marx was very critical of Capitalism and how he believed it only produces class struggles and inequalities. In this particular article, Michael Egoavil discusses Marx’s views on a particular aspect of Capitalism, securities, [...]
This was an article i read for my paper on education, written by Jack Gerson and Steven Miller, from an independent newspaper which tackles the idea of privatizing education in order to help improve the standard of education, especially here in new york. The article was based on a commission given in December 2006 by the New commission on [...]
This is an academic article i read while doing research for my paper, which deals with the commodification of education, and how education today has been increasingly standardized similar to other commodities in economic markets. Author Mary Kupiec Cayton, shows how education has essentially entered the global market and has been standardized to a point where [...]
This was an article I read from the Naked Capitalism blogs and I found it to be quite interesting. It was based on a joint statement (http://treasury.gov/press/releases/tg38.htm) released by the treasury, FDIC, OCC, OTS, and the Federal Reserve and discussed how the entire financial system is extremely important to the economic system in the U.S. [...]
So this is an article I found on NYTimes. It argues how the Washington Post recently had a front page article about rising hunger and how the number of Americans on food Stamps is reaching a “record high” but fails to take into account the fact that the population is growing. Basically, false and exaggerated info is [...]
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So this is a recent article on NYTimes in which both McCain and Obama criticize the other’s tax policies, while making references to welfare. Basically McCain has been calling Obama’s Tax proposal a “welfare giveaway to working class voters”. He even accuses Obama of wanting to turn the IRS “into a giant welfare agency, redistributing [...]
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