<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Christian,<div><br></div><div>The CORE curriculum is an improvement over standard approaches in economics departments but it is fundamentally neoclassical. It moves away from neoliberalism but is firmly ensconced in a liberal view of markets and capitalism. Putting lipstick on a pig is, to me, an appropriate characterization. Check out the attached New Yorker article.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Steve</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Christian Stalberg <<a href="mailto:cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu">cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8904228590634638221WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sharing this resource. Would love to hear reactions. My kneejerk response was that this is simply putting lipstick on a pig (the pig being the systemic structural violence of capitalism). <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.core-econ.org/" target="_blank">https://www.core-econ.org/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">…oh and if you would like to know where this initiative got its start, read this<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism</span></a></span> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you in advance for your interest and attention!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">__<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Christian Stalberg<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Doctoral Student<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anthropology & Social Change<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CIIS, San Francisco, CA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“<span style="color:black">What is it that we can do that addresses whatever the problem is, rather than what it is that we’re trying to get somebody else to do.” – Alice Lynd<u></u><u></u></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">It’s better to die for an idea that is going to live than to live for an idea that is going to die.” – Steve Biko</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but so did the divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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