Topics in Political Economy


NEWS. . .




28 AUGUST

Introducing the Book

Damien Hirst's Shark at the Met


11 SEPTEMBER

Modern Times

factory scene

eating machine

café

ending


7 OCTOBER

Kentucky map

Harlan Coal Field

Harlan County USA

trailer

"Forty-Two Years" (Nimrod Workman)

"They Can Never Keep Us Down" (Hazel Dickens)

"Which Side Are You On" (Florence Reece)



11 NOVEMBER

Flint Sitdown Strike--Part 1

Flint Sitdown Strike--Part 2

Top 10: Most Dangerous U.S. Cities

Flint Reacts to Roger & Me 25th Anniversary

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize lecture

Colin Gordon, "Thinking about Inequality"



18 NOVEMBER

World Top Incomes Database



20 NOVEMBER

Joseph Townsend, "A Dissertation on the Poor Laws"


workhouse: men


workhouse: women


workhouse: children



9 DECEMBER

Thomas Piketty, lecture at New School University (3 October 2014)