HONORS 131: Contemporary Society in Multiple Perspectives
Lecture Notes
(Click on the lecture you missed to get a word document of the main points covered in class)
No Lecture Notes Were Distributed for the Easterly Readings. If you want a better idea of where I was coming from, you can click here for a book review that I wrote up on Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth.
Remember that we didn't discuss the second half of Borowski in class. We instead ran an experiment on the "Voluntary Provisions of a Public Good." I argued that resistance and revolt in the concentration camps was a public good with inherent "free-rider" problems.
Some of my lecture material on Fogel and Engerman comes from an excellent review of Fogel's Without Consent or Contract. You can download a PDF file of the review, which was written by Peter Kolchin, here.
For some background information on Milan Kundera, click here.
*As promised, here is a link that contains possible paper topics for your sememster papers. If you're still struggling for a topic, please don't hesitate to talk to me after class or during my office hours.*
*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS: HERE IS THE REVISED READING SCHEDULE FOR RAND'S ATLAS SHRUGGED. IN ADDITION, THE EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY DISCUSSED IN CLASS INVOLVES ANSWERING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO QUESTIONS:
(1) Is greed, for the lack of a better word, "good"?
(2) How in the world does kiwi fruit get to Iron Mountain, MI in January? Or, how in the world do so many turkeys get to New York City in November?
MAXIMUM LENGTH: 3 DOUBLE-SPACED PAGES
DUE ON NOVEMBER 24th
For those of you worried about the Final Exam, a review sheet can be found here.
