Julian Saurin @ Free University Brighton |
Money (i)
Session 1 - Introducing Value & MoneyFurther reflection and reading from the first class
Necessarily we can only begin to scratch the surface of political economy in this first brief course. One important thing to appreciate is that for every sentence we utter in a discussion you can bet your last penny that there has been a vast academic literature dedicated to it. Sometimes that literature might not be too enlightening, but the only way of making that assessment is by looking at the work itself. So one strategy that I would strongly recommend, especially but not only for those who may wish to be assessed for this course, is to pick up on any particular item that we’ve discussed briefly in class but which we didn’t have time to elaborate or detail. Take the item and begin to do you own investigations and readings. If you tell me then I can make some suggestions or offer research advice. For example, supposing you were particularly interested in “the biggest corporate collapse in history” i.e, Lehmans in 2008 or the historical changes in the gender pay gap, both of which were mentioned but which were not the principal subject of the class, then you could investigate them further.
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