Inequality: Global History of Capitalism

5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Study of past 500 years of global economic history. Consideration of myth of economic growth, justice of distribution, and experiments with alternatives to capitalism. Introduction to foundational theoretical works that span ideological spectrums, contextualized in specific historical situations of both Western and non-Western regions. Attention to non-Western regions challenges conventional ideas of capitalism and prominence of West in capitalism scholarship. P/NP or letter grading.