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Spring 2007: Other Unit Events

Tuesday, April 10, 2007. 12:30-2pm.
FLB 4080

Seminar on "Culture and Economics in the Free-Market Era"

With Luis Carcamo-Huechante, Romance Languages, Harvard University. Response by Ericka Beckman, Spanish, Italian, Portugues, UIUC

Open to the public!

PRIMARY READING:
-Luis Carcamo-Huechante, “Milton Friedman:  Knowledge, Public Culture, and Market Economy in the Chile of Pinochet,” Public Culture, 18:2 (Spring 2006).

SECONDARY READINGS:
- Stigler, George. “The Economist as Preacher” from The Economist as Preacher. Oxford, Inglaterra: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1982. pp. 3-13.

-Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and the Market” from Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. pp. 260-278.

Readings will be available on e-reserves under Unit 2007/Rothberg.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Please contact Michael Rothberg (mpr@uiuc.edu) for more details.