Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Seminar Schedule Fall 2021

 Seminar Schedule- draft, changes will occur. 

 

Topic: Ren Seminar: Popular Economics for the Common Good

Time: Sep 9, 2021 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

        Each  week on Thu, until Nov 11, 2021, 10 occurrence(s)

 

Day 1 

Welcome to the class.

What is the common good?

California recall election 

 

Day 2  Sept 16 

Climate Crisis

Guest speaker

Day 3 Sept 23

State of the economy.

 How an economy works

 

Day 4 Sept. 30 

Stimulus and  Covid.

Social infrastructure

Stimulus V. Austerity

 

 

Day 5 Oct 7

Social safety net

            Federal budget. State and local budgets

 

Day 6, Oct 14

Neo liberalism

            Neo liberal capitalism

            The crisis of 2008- 2012

              Finance capitalism

 

 

Day 7 Oct 21

Pandemic and racism

             Rev. Benjamin Barber

            Poor People’s Campaign.

 

Day 8, Oct 28 

The common good.    

Stimulus. Build back better.

Who owns Congress ?

Democracy deficits.  Filibuster. 

 

 

Day 9, Nov 4

Migration. Immigration.  World migration.  Global economy.

 

 

Day 10,  Nov 11 

Fascism. 

Challenges of democracy. Solutions.

 

 

End of seminar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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