Before the final exam, we learned several economic terms, such as inflation, economic policymaking, unemployment rate, exchange value, capitalism, etc. See your online textbook (under "links") to review the Economic Policymaking chapter (uses Wal Mart as a case study).
(1) Case Study: Tunisia
In class, we highlighted & marked the attached article to identify which issues and events in Tunisia are primarily economic, and which are political, and took notes on the three news clips inserted into the article.
In class, we highlighted & marked the attached article to identify which issues and events in Tunisia are primarily economic, and which are political, and took notes on the three news clips inserted into the article.
THE ECONOMY: Production & production relations... how people meet their basic needs.
POLITICS: Decision-making & influencing who gets what, where, when and how.
(2) Homework answered the question, "How does Tunisia show the relationship between economics & politics?" and you were asked to fill an index card with your answer.
(3) Economics & Politics Homework
For homework, we answered some questions about economics, politics, and capitalism.
For homework, we answered some questions about economics, politics, and capitalism.
(4) Economics & Politics Quiz
We took a quiz that used questions from the homework, to assess your knowledge of the relationship btwn economics & politics.
(5) "The Corporation" - this version has some ads
We watched this documentary and took notes on how corporations are both economic & political, and tried to deepen our understanding of capitalism by exploring the question, "Are corporations that take advantage of people in developing countries just a case of 'a few bad apples'?"
(6) Corporation Presentations
In class, we presented in groups, an answer to one of five questions relevant to the documentary, including, "How are corporations political?," "How/why is our survival based on the decisions of unelected people?," "How do U.S. corporations effect world economies?" and "What do corporations control, and what is out of their control?"
(7) Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
This is an excerpt from the above work by Frederick Engels, who puts forward a theory on the transition between feudalism & capitalism, and the re-organization of production that this consisted of. Knowing that this is an attempt to describe the evolution of economics and its relationship to societal conflict, you annotated independently, and then were graded on your participation (checking your own understanding through discussion) in a conversation that went deeper into the claim that the combination of socialized production with privatized appropriation "contains the germ of the whole of social antagonisms of today."
(8) Mapping the System Project
We took a quiz that used questions from the homework, to assess your knowledge of the relationship btwn economics & politics.
(5) "The Corporation" - this version has some ads
We watched this documentary and took notes on how corporations are both economic & political, and tried to deepen our understanding of capitalism by exploring the question, "Are corporations that take advantage of people in developing countries just a case of 'a few bad apples'?"
(6) Corporation Presentations
In class, we presented in groups, an answer to one of five questions relevant to the documentary, including, "How are corporations political?," "How/why is our survival based on the decisions of unelected people?," "How do U.S. corporations effect world economies?" and "What do corporations control, and what is out of their control?"
(7) Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
This is an excerpt from the above work by Frederick Engels, who puts forward a theory on the transition between feudalism & capitalism, and the re-organization of production that this consisted of. Knowing that this is an attempt to describe the evolution of economics and its relationship to societal conflict, you annotated independently, and then were graded on your participation (checking your own understanding through discussion) in a conversation that went deeper into the claim that the combination of socialized production with privatized appropriation "contains the germ of the whole of social antagonisms of today."
(8) Mapping the System Project
Remember Thursday Offices Hours 3:10-4:30! Those who attended last time had a much easier go at this quiz!
These are your eight grades so far for the 2nd semester. Stay on top of it.
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