Your Weekly Occupy the Econ Dept Reading

[Peter McDonald]

Salutations,

Last week's reading was a little dry, but informative, not the least of which for understanding how they did the research. It appears a large review of the CV's of the entire econ dept is in order. That plus a search of media archives and we may be able to determine what kinds of conflicts of interest exist in the Econ dept.

Anyway,

this week's sort of just some anti-capitalist red meat, so it's a good read. If you've already read David Graeber, you can sit this one out.

http://www.thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars/print

http://canopycanopycanopy.com/10/to_have_is_to_owe

Also, check these guys out. It's the Mondragon Corp, a corporation that's actually a federation of worker-owned cooperatives. An example of how these ideas can work on a large scale level. http://canopycanopycanopy.com/10/to_have_is_to_owe