Smith vs. Marx Assignment--Due 1/30

Smith vs Marx project: Due Friday 1/30

Karl Marx and Adam Smith

 Using the websites listed below as your jumping off point, create a dialogue between Marx and Smith. The dialogue should include:

• Reference to their major written works
• What motivated their life’s work
• Why each loves his own philosophy
• Why each does not like the other’s philosophy
• The role of religion in economics

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Smith.html

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Marx.html

Week 12/22-12/23

Monday 12/22: Read your bio on the Enlightenment thinker (front and back). Complete the chart for your thinker.  Be prepared to discuss your person in class.  Know the person's views and where they stood on the idea of absolutism.

Assignment due dates for 1750-1900

Assignment #1:    1/7

Assignment #2:    1/13

Assignment #3:    1/23

Assignment #4:    2/2


Marx vs Smith Assignment (more info to follow but assignment is on the blog): 1/30

Week of 12/15-12/19

Monday 12/15: Coffee reading and questions due today.

Tuesday 12/16:

Wednesday 12/17:

Thurday 12/18:

Friday 12/19: Test 1450-1740

Week 12/8-12/12

Monday 12/8: Please read the Japanese isolation reading and answer the questions.

Tuesday 12/9:  Japanese reading due

Wednesday 12/10: Assignment #10 Due

Thursday 12/11:

Friday 12/12: Assignment #9 Due

Coffee article due on Monday 12/15