The following lecture slides were utilized during this course.
Session 1: Intro: What Is Capitalism? What Is Anthropology? How Can Understanding Capitalism Help Us Better Understand Our Current Historical Moment?
Session 2: Expanding Inequality and Contemporary Crises
Debating Inequality (PDF - 1.5MB)
Sessions 3 and 4: Thinking about Capitalism and Information Ecologies
Information Ecologies (PDF - 3MB)
Session 5: Nineteenth-Century Political Economy
Adam Smith and Karl Marx (PDF)
Session 6: Capitalism and “Culture”
Thinking about Capitalism and “Culture”: Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, Sherry Ortner (PDF - 1.2MB)
Session 7: Debating Capitalism after World War II
Karl Polanyi vs. Friedrich Hayek (PDF - 1MB)
Session 9: How We Got to the Extremes: From the Precariat to the Superwealthy
Racial Capitalism, Flexible Accumulation, and Growing Precarity (PDF)
Session 10: Exploring Social Class in High School
Changing Class Configurations in the United States: Wealth, Race, Deindustrialization (PDF - 1.3MB)
Sessions 14 and 15: The Rise of the “Fissured Workplace”/Chasing an Innovation Economy: Gig Work, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence
The Rise of the Fissured Workplace and the Expansion of the Gig Economy (PDF)
Session 16: Soviet-Style State Socialism
Capitalism and its “Others”: Socialism I (PDF)
Session 17: The Nordic Model
Capitalism and its “Others”: Socialism II (PDF)
Session 18: The View from Post-Colonial Regions
The View from Post-Colonial Regions (PDF)
Sessions 20 and 21: Wall Street and Finance Capitalism/The Financial Crisis of 2008
Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street (PDF)
Sessions 21 and 23: The Financial Crisis of 2008/Concluding Conversation
The Financial Crisis of 2008/Concluding Conversation (PDF - 2.6MB)
