First Year Seminar 191SBS25 - S-Equity/Postmodern World

We are living in a world besieged by what many contemporary intellectuals are calling poly-crises ranging from but not limited to managing the impacts of rising inequality and climate change to artificial intelligence and political polarization. These set of multiple crises simultaneously that demand our focus and attention on confronting and resolving them. While many of the contemporary challenges may seem to be overwhelming in their nature and scope, there is a common thread of economic logic and public policy that interweave many of these crises. This course aims to highlight the common denominator of economics and the idea of equity that should be the at the very center of resolving many issues we face in the post modern world that we inhabit. This course will use writings and insights from intellectual giants like Mariana Mazzucato, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty to first understand and then unpack and examine the economic assumptions and dogmas that the modern economic world works on thereby revealing a heterodox way to tailor our understanding and responses to the many contemporary issues we face today.

First-year (R1ST)