What is Capitalism? | Anthropology | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. Christine Walley

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Anthropology

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Fall 2021

Level

Undergraduate

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Social Science
- Anthropology

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21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Adam Smith and Karl Marx

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Capitalism and its “Others”: Socialism I

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Capitalism and its “Others”: Socialism II

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Changing Class Configurations in the United States

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Debating Inequality

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Information Ecologies

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Introduction

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Karl Polanyi vs Friedrich Hayek

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Racial Capitalism, Flexible Accumulation, and Growing Precarity

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: The Financial Crisis of 2008 / Concluding Conversation

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: The Rise of the Fissured Workplace and the Expansion of the Gig Economy

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: The View from Post-Colonial Regions

21A.461F21 What is Capitalism? Lecture Slides: Thinking about Capitalism and "Culture"

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Christine Walley

Departments

Anthropology

As Taught In

Fall 2021

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Social Science
- Anthropology

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Notes

Readings

Written Assignments

Download Course

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