Category: In Class

Week 13 – Government Budgets

Additional Resources:

Darrick Hamilton is a professor at the my graduate department. He is a BedStuy native who works on revolutionary expansionary policy and talks here about the limits of monetary policy and its interaction with stocks and politics. We didn’t watch in class but I suspect it is of interest to many:

Goodman, A. and J. González. (2020, August 19). “We Will Make Biden Do It: Economist Darrick Hamilton on Pushing the Next Admin to the Left.” DemocracyNow.

Resources from class:

Kelton, Stephanie. (2018, August 20). Interview with Fareed Zakaria. CNN.

Lu, Marcus. (2020, October 30). “Charting America’s Debt: $27 Trillion and Counting.” Visual Capitalist. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-debt-27-trillion-and-counting/

Week 3 – Economic Wellbeing – Lecture Slides

Week3-EconomicWellbeing

Download Week 2 Lecture Slides as .ppt

This week we defined “Economics,” “an economy,” and “Capitalism.”

We introduced the concept of “surplus” and discussed different ways to attain it.

At the end, I highlighted how Slavery and Imperialism contributed to the ability of the U.S. and Western European colonial powers to accumulate surplus — ultimately observed as an increase in GDP.

Week 2 – Question Building

What should New York City do to recover economically from COVID-19?

In class we started building some questions to help us break down this big question.

here are a few notes from the conversation we had in class on Thursday, September 3rd.

And here is the article that started our discussion:

Gonzalez, Angi. (2020). “Economic Impact of Coronoavirus Still Looms in NYC.” Spectrum News NY1. 31 July. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/coronavirus/2020/07/31/economic-impact-of-coronavirus-still-looms-in-nyc