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O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 1

April 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“The proponents of M.O.O.C.s (Massive Open Online Courses) look for the magic bullet, hoping to find a technological solution to the crisis in education. The O.O.P.S. (Open Online Public Seminar) project is to use the new technology, the potential of the web, to extend education’s promise.”

With these words, I closed ...

Rethinking Capitalism: Class 2

February 11, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

The second class had what I regard as a pellucid account of capitalism from Duncan Foley. The main points that I took away from it are: 1) Capitalism has to be seen as a quasi-natural form of social organization, which is rooted in the division of labor. The key point of ...

Rethinking Capitalism

February 4, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

Capitalism, by its nature, cannot be understood through the lens of any one discipline. Most importantly, it is not fully comprehensible by economics; there is no such thing as an economic theory of capitalism. Philosophy is important, for example to understand the moral standing of capitalism, but it is scarcely ...

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Rethinking Capitalism: Class 2

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