two syllabuses
In Spring a young man’s fancy turns to love. Rapidly aging academics such as myself, however, have to decide which readings to assign. This semester I’m teaching Organizations and Management to students in Duke’s MMS certificate program and Markets and Moral Order to a small group of seniors at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Both classes were a lot of fun last year (perhaps not for the students). I’ve rearranged the running order in the Orgs course a bit, as the flow was wrong last time.
If you think there’s something that absolutely has to be included in either course, I’m open to suggestions. But (I’m looking at you, Teppo) you’re not allowed to suggest something without also saying what I should drop in order to include it. Unlike the economy, a syllabus is not the sort of thing that you want to grow aggressively in order that everyone gets more and bigger slices of the whole.
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January 11, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Looks like two great courses! Also, the link to Quinn’s paper is not working right (in the Markets and Moral Order Syllabus). I’m getting sent to a different AJS paper at JStor.
Dan Hirschman
January 11, 2011 at 3:14 pm
two syllabi?
Harold
January 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Syllabuses is preferred.
Kieran
January 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
And if you pronounce “syllabi” correctly it sounds really weird. And you come off, well, sounding like a ponce.
Shamus Khan
January 11, 2011 at 5:48 pm
I’m not sure it’s worth cutting some of Hayek’s own stuff for, but it might be worth looking at the “postscript” to the 2nd edition of John Gray’s _Hayek on Liberty_, where Gray starts to make his break with classical liberalism and turns against Hayek (more destructive than creative being the main worry, if I remember right.) Maybe some of Milton Friedman can be cut for it.
I’ve not read any of the papers for week 6, but if you wanted to switch one, Elizabeth Anderson’s “Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?” Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (1990): 71-92, might be a good choice.
I can’t say I feel that you certainly should make these changes, but I thought I’d suggest them in case they are of interest.
Matt
January 11, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Maybe something Gauthier related? Googled “markets morally free zones” and got this Hausman critique of Gauthier
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/hausman/papers/gauthier.htm
Chris Bertram
January 11, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Gauthier’s a possibility, yeah … Maybe in conjunction with Anderson’s stuff on Hayekian markets and desert.
The last time I taught 200 I included Anderson on women’s labor/surrogacy, etc, but it didn’t seem to work out. (Which of course is not Anderson’s fault!)
Kieran
January 11, 2011 at 7:39 pm
No orgs class is complete without two-three weeks dedicated to postmodern theory.
teppo
January 11, 2011 at 9:05 pm
You might consider this: http://www.amazon.com/Deviant-Globalization-Nils-Gilman/dp/1441178104/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294781192&sr=8-2
Porter
January 11, 2011 at 9:26 pm