SHUM 2437

Economy, Power, and Inequality

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

How do humans organize production, distribution, exchange, and consumption? What social, political, environmental, and religious values underlie different forms of economic organization? And how do they produce racial, ethnic, class, gender, and sexual inequalities? This course uses a range of historical and contemporary case studies to address these questions, in the process introducing a range of analytic approaches including formalism, substantivism, Marxist and feminist theory, critical race studies, and science and technology studies. Course themes include gifts and commodities; the nature of money, markets, and finance; credit and debt relations; labor, property, and value; licit and illicit economies; capitalism and socialism; development and underdevelopment.

Distribution Requirements (D-AG, SBA-AG), (SCD-AS, SSC-AS), (OCE-IL)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

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