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21A.461 What is Capitalism? (MIT)

As we live in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2008, there are renewed questions about the nature of the economic system—capitalism—within which we live. What are its benefits and drawbacks? Why does it garner both so much opposition and support? What are its moral, economic, social and political implications? Is it even a "system"? How has capitalism played out in different historical moments and regions of the world? This class addresses the question "what is capitalism?" from a social scientific point of view, rather than a classical economic one.

Keywords:: ethnographic, Ethnography, anthropology, Post-Structuralism, capitalist, socialist, Post-Structuralist, globalization, financial crisis, socialism, socioeconomic, ocwc, occupy wall street, Cultural Anthropology, oec, inequality, Social Anthropology, economics, class, capitalism, weber, bourdieu, tea party, ethnography

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Social Sciences / Anthropology

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: August 6, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 5, 2021
Author:: Prof. Christine Walley
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed
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Language:: English
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