“In what ways have ‘the extension of markets and of market-oriented thinking [expanded] into spheres of life once thought to lie beyond their reach’ according to Sandel? Why might this be a bad thing?”
Watch this:
And answer the question.
Readings for February 27
This webpage includes all chapters of Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Enjoy!
Please read Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. We will ficus on this text this week. Follow this link to read the article.
Did you know about this before reading Sandel’s lecture?
Canada has also encountered the licensing craze. In 1995, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sold to Disney the right to market the Mountie image worldwide.
See this link for more information about this controversial licensing sale. We will discuss this.
The New Deadline for the next assignment
Dear all,
Since I was absent last week, I decided that it would be fair to postpone the deadline for the next assignment. The new hard deadline for the next assigment is 5 pm on February 20.
Since it is reading week that week, I will accept email submissions. I take no responsibility for technicial-internet problems, so plan accordingly. Penalties will apply for late papers. yakaya@gmail.com is my email address.
Yasin
Presentations
Five is the magic number. Make presentations OR write response papers on five course readings. You may mix. For example, you may write three papers and make two presentations.
This form is only about presentations. Fill it in ASAP please.
Follow this link for the form: http://goo.gl/forms/zI4Iiner3H
Wealth Inequality in Canada
Excellent short video/iconography by Broadbent Institute on wealth disparity in Canada.
“WEALTH INEQUALITY IS MUCH WORSE THAN CANADIANS THINK IT IS AND A FAR CRY FROM WHAT THEY THINK IT SHOULD BE.”
Explore The Library’s Online Film Collection
Now that you are (almost) in holiday mode, you may be looking for things to do. Check out the library’s online streaming collection (free for York students and perfectly legal–unlike your torrents Anxelo). If you are a BUSO fan, there are documentaries on business and society. But I recommend you to explore art house films of Janus Films (Criterion Collection). For starters (to art house cinema), their American Independent Films collection is awesome. Watch Jim Jarmush’s Stranger than Paradise for example. Link.
Here is the link to the online streaming page. Alternatively, search for movie titles in the library’s webpage. The cartoon below is just for fun and shows how I feel in this time of the year.
Thanks
We had the last tutorial of this semester. Thanks for all of your hard work. We will continue to rock ‘n roll next semester.
Keep warm, stay cool.
Yasin
Submitting Your Essay + Deflation
You are supposed to hand in your essay before the lecture tomorrow. For those who cannot make it, I provided an option of submitting essays in the tutorial.
Regardless, we will have a tutorial tomorrow. I will take attendance. Let’s say you couldn’t attend the lecture and the tutorial. Then you have to drop your essay to the Division of Social Sciences (Ross Building, 7th floor). Do this at your own risk: the
secretaries may see your essay only on Monday and stamp that day on your paper. In that case, you would be three days late and lose six percentile points.
I want you to think about deflation: general decrease in prices. That’s what’s going on in Europe at the moment. Prices go down, as recession continues. The commonsensical idea is that it is always good for people when prices go down. Is this always the case?
See you tomorrow.
This graph is taken from The Economist Espresso App.
Check out the Economist’s Espresso App
Did you know that the Economist has a new iPhone app: Espresso? It delivers few short articles every morning of the week. In five minutes, you can read the important news of business and society. That’s efficient. Is it not?
The Economist is not a critical magazine at all. Its editors are proud of being the voice of bourgeoisie. Nonetheless, it is one of the most influential magazines because it is read by many policy makers, businessmen, and intellectuals…
If you like the Espresso app (a one-month free trial, after which full access will cost $3.99 a month.), then buy a subscription to the Economist. They have student deals. Me? I have a subscription to its digital and print edition (and I often download their voice recordings to my IPod).
This article is from The Economist Espresso: Graft industry: the business of bribery http://econ.st/1Achqdx
How to use Google Scholar with a Yorku account
In this short video, I show how to find and download academic articles using Google Scholar with a YorkU account
Enjoy.
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