Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2856 |
FORG-272-01 |
Mafia |
1.00 |
LEC |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
TBA |
Y |
GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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In contemporary societies there is an intimate contest between two kinds of social order: The rule of law and criminal organization. A remarkable instance may be found in the workings and metamorphoses of the Mafia. From its origins in Sicily, an agrarian society on the periphery of Europe, the Mafia has acquired intercontinental dimensions and a grip on high politics and finance capital. This shadowy phenomenon has been approached and explained in very different ways by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and political scientists. It has also been the subject of literature and film. We shall discuss outstanding examples of each approach and treatment. The purposes of the course are to make sense of the Mafia, to explore a basic problem of social order and to compare the different styles of reasoning and representation that characterize the various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Course requirements: seminar reports, several short papers, and full attendance and participation. (Listed as both LACS 272 and ITAL 272.) |
| 2857 |
FORG-291-01 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: Please contact Professor Stringham at edward.stringham@trincoll.edu to request an enrollment PIN. |
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The course evaluates the role and nature of entrepreneurship and the market process, and contemporary public policy issues concerning business culture and the entrepreneur in modern society. A variety of theories of market competition and the significance of the entrepreneur are developed and contrasted in terms of innovation, uncertainty, market coordination, and economic growth and development. Market and political entrepreneurship are contrasted, and the topics of social corporate responsibility, insider trading, the environment, and the global economy are discussed in detail. Historical and institutional examples are drawn upon throughout the course. |
| 2858 |
FORG-291-02 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: Please contact Professor Stringham at edward.stringham@trincoll.edu to request an enrollment PIN. |
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The course evaluates the role and nature of entrepreneurship and the market process, and contemporary public policy issues concerning business culture and the entrepreneur in modern society. A variety of theories of market competition and the significance of the entrepreneur are developed and contrasted in terms of innovation, uncertainty, market coordination, and economic growth and development. Market and political entrepreneurship are contrasted, and the topics of social corporate responsibility, insider trading, the environment, and the global economy are discussed in detail. Historical and institutional examples are drawn upon throughout the course. |
| 2859 |
FORG-310-01 |
Theory & Philosophy of Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: Please contact Professor Stringham at edward.stringham@trincoll.edu to request an enrollment PIN. |
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Why are some nations rich and some nations poor? Why are some brimming with entrepreneurship and economic activity and others are not? To what extent or when should markets be considered immoral or moral? Building off of the economic ideas of the first famous economist, Adam Smith, this course will discuss the potential importance, or pitfalls, of institutions, private property rights, and contracts for economic innovation.The course will focus on the formal and informal organizations that underpin and help support exchange. Students will also focus on writing a case study of a formal or informal organization designed to advance economic activity. The course will be reading-intensive and discussion-based. |
| 2860 |
FORG-310-02 |
Theory & Philosophy of Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
T: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: Please contact Professor Stringham at edward.stringham@trincoll.edu to request an enrollment PIN. |
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Why are some nations rich and some nations poor? Why are some brimming with entrepreneurship and economic activity and others are not? To what extent or when should markets be considered immoral or moral? Building off of the economic ideas of the first famous economist, Adam Smith, this course will discuss the potential importance, or pitfalls, of institutions, private property rights, and contracts for economic innovation.The course will focus on the formal and informal organizations that underpin and help support exchange. Students will also focus on writing a case study of a formal or informal organization designed to advance economic activity. The course will be reading-intensive and discussion-based. |
| 3338 |
FORG-315-01 |
Prohibitions |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This seminar tackles two questions: Why do we outlaw some consensual
behaviors by adults? And should we? Our common work will focus on prohibitions against lifestyles, markets,international migration, and making and taking life. Topics in contested lifestyles are recreational drug use and free marriage.Topics in contested markets are sex, adoption, organs for transplantation, secrecy (blackmail), and wagering on political predictions. Topics in contested ways of making and taking life are genetic engineering, abortion, and assisted suicide. Students will conduct policy debates about various prohibitions. We will devote several weeks towards the end of the semester to individual (or small-group) research projects by students. The research projects may be about topics we have covered or about other prohibitions.
Note: Students who have completed FYSM 105, Prohibitions, may not enroll in this course. |
| 3339 |
FORG-360-01 |
Markets, Games, and Strat Beh |
1.00 |
LEC |
Schneider, Arthur |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Under the umbrella of bounded and theoretical rationality, this course will introduce students to the theory of games and strategic behavior. Our focus will be on the theory of bargaining and studying bargaining games including Volunteer and Traveler’s Dilemma, Public Goods Game as well as Dictator, Ultimatum, and Trust Games. We will explore the role of social preferences and study the adaptation processes that players exhibit in competitive strategic interactions as well as the rationale behind traits such as reciprocity, fairness, altruism, and trust. Students will learn methodology of research and design their own game experiments. |
| 3340 |
FORG-381-01 |
America & Wealth of Nations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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1776 was a year of wonders in the development of liberty. The Founders published The Declaration of Independence, inspiring the American Revolution. Adam Smith published his masterpiece, The Wealth of Nations, making the case for free markets. Prompted by the 250th anniversary of these watershed moments in liberty and social theory, this course examines the legacy of 1776 for private governance. We will focus on the roles of self-mastery, community, voluntary association, property, and the market in “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” We will give due attention alike to brilliance and blind spots. We will study classic texts by Founders, Adam Smith, and Alexis de Tocqueville, and fresh appraisals by scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
The course has a seminar format. |
| 1670 |
FORG-399-01 |
Independent Study |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Obtain registration form from the Registrar's Office. |
| 1959 |
FORG-466-01 |
Teaching Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |