Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 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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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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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. |
| 3435 |
FORG-303-01 |
Exit, Voice & Power |
1.00 |
SEM |
Stringham, Edward |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
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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Although individuals form organizations to advance collective goals, oftentimes some members of organizations use power at the expense of others. Albert Hirschman analyzed ways in which members use voice or exit to agitate and exert influence for change. Students will study ways in which structures and organizational setups perpetuate power and study examples of non-coercive cooperative alternatives. An emphasis will be on historical New England and NY based normative organizations including the New England Non-Resistance Society of William Lloyd Garrison, the Women's Peace Society (Helen Frances Garrison Villard), and the Catholic Worker Movement(Dorothy Day),& some modern examples. Students will explore the role of individual and collective agency in social transformation will learn imagine alternative possible systems in modern times. |
| 3436 |
FORG-309-01 |
Matching Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Stringham, Edward |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An introduction to qualitative analysis of matching in society. Matches are pairings, exchanges, and allocations where a person must choose a match, and also be chosen. Matching is a crucial part of life. We will examine the roles of formal organizations, markets, social norms, and signaling behaviors in matching. We will study a wide array of examples: assortative mating (dating and marriage), jobs, college admissions, adoption, visas, kidney exchanges, medical residencies, judicial clerkships, college bowl games, dormitory room allocation, and software matching (Uber, Airbnb). |
| 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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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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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: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
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. |
| 3411 |
FORG-325-01 |
Sports |
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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An introduction to the social science of sports. We will focus on motivations and behaviors in sports organizations and markets. We will compare and contrast college, professional, individual, team, and international sports. Specific topics are stakeholders (agents, athletes, fans, clubs, leagues, media, owners, and sponsors), governance (rules and informal honor codes), and dysfunctions (bias, corruption, discrimination, and doping). An overarching topic is: What are sports for? We will review answers from economics, sociology, and psychology, and develop our own. The course has a seminar format. Students will lead classes with presentations about assigned materials and debates about policy issues; for example, pay-for-play for college athletes, performance-enhancing drugs, and Title IX. There will be guest visits by experts from the field. |
| 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: 12:00PM-12:50PM |
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) |