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  • Map of Freedom 2007 ( Freedom House )
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    The year 2006 saw little change in the global state of freedom in the world and the emergence of a series of worrisome trends that present potentially serious threats to the expansion of freedom in the future, Freedom House said…

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  • Economics and Ideology by Gabriel Martinez
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    This module contains writings in the major paradigms in social philosophy of analysis of relations among state, economy, and society, the study of which is often termed Political Economy. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism…

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  • The Commanding Heights: The Battle For The World Economy ( PBS )
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    (from Amazon.com): The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political…

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Course level: 300
  • Markets, State and Institutions
    by Gabriel Martinez
    Introduction and Course Description: This course explores the major paradigms in social philosophy for analyzing relations among state, economy, and society, the study of which is often termed Political Economy. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism…
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Economics and Ideology

by Gabriel Martinez

This module contains writings in the major paradigms in social philosophy of analysis of relations among state, economy, and society, the study of which is often termed Political Economy. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism…