Meets the following requirements: HS   

Economic globalization increasingly is the subject of newspaper headlines, high visibility protest, and social commentary. While the loudest voices seem to damn the process, others claim it heralds a bright future for humanity. Yet few people seem actually to know much about the institutions behind the process of economic globalization.  This course is an intermediate/advanced study of global economic institutions and processes designed for students with familiarity with basic economic concepts and some exposure to global economic institutions. We will critically examine global economic organizations (the WTO, IMF, and World Bank), international capitalism, multinational corporations, and the process of economic globalization itself. Economic perspectives (neoclassical, ecological, Marxist, and others) will be our first basis of critique, but we will also make significant use of traditionally non-economic perspectives (e.g. sociology and ecology) and voices (e.g. women and community organizers) in our analysis.

Level:  Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: one term of college-level economics or signature of instructor.   Class size limited to 15. Lab fee $15. *HS*