GVB
290: American Public Policy
Daily Reading
New
York Times - Politics
New
York Times - Opinion
Washington
Post - Politics
Washington
Post - Opinion
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Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "Democracy
and Capitalism" in Stella Z. Theodoulou and Matthew A. Cahn, eds., Public
Policy: The Essential Readings (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice
Hall, 1995), 368-372. Chapter 1 of Democracy and Capitalism (New York:
Basic Books, 1986).
John Dewey, "The
Public and Its Problems" in Philip Green, ed., Democracy
(Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1994), 120-125. Excerpts from
The Public and Its Problems (Denver: Alan Swallow, n. d.).
Milton Friedman, "Capitalism
and Freedom" in Theodoulou and Cahn, eds., Public Policy
372-376. Excerpt from Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1982).
Walter Lippmann, The
Phantom Public (New York: Harcourt, Brace, [c1925]), 63-74, 143-151.
William Graham Sumner, "What
Social Classes Do Not Owe Each Other" in Annals 10: 594-601.
Excerpts from What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (New York: 1883).
Lester F. Ward, "Plutocracy
or Paternalism" in The Annals of America, vol. 12 (Chicago:
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), 29-32. Excerpts, originally published in Forum
(November 1895).
Mortenson
Electronic Reserve
Links to Embryo Research, Gay Rights, Racism and the Black
Middle Class, and Zero Tolerance.
Recommended Reading
Jill Abramson, "The
Business of Persuasion Thrives in Nation's Capital," New York Times (September
29, 1998).
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Big
Money and Politics, Time 155, no. 5 (February 7, 2000). [There
are four articles altogether: One long one, "How the little guy gets
crunched," and three short ones "Campaign finance," "Drained
batteries," and "Framed."]
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