People and Economy Lecture. During our lecture on the Origins of the Global Economy, we wathced an excerpt from the 6-hour PBS series, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. For students interested in learning more, visit the PBS website, which has a full-featured site devoted to this program. This is an extremely useful site, with a great deal of supplemental information, transcripts, and the full series available for viewing online. To see the segment used in today's class, see Chapters 4 and 5 for Episode One: The Battle of Ideas..

People and Power Lecture. Our lecture on people and ideology covered a wide range of issues and a number of prominent intellectuals, including Hannah Arendt and Antonio Gramsci. There is a wealth of information on the web about both individuals. A concise summary of Arendt's main ideas and works can be found on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Wikipedia's online encyclopedia also provides a very short summary of Arendt's main contributions, including links to other relevant sites. You can also find excerpts from one of Arendt's most well-known works, The Origins of Totalitarianism | To learn more about Antonio Gramsci, you might also want to start out with Wikipedia's short article on this highly influential figure. There also several websites devoted to Gramsci's work, including the Gramsci Links Archive. For those interested in some recent analyses on Gramsci's concept of hegemony, read the Theory of Hegemony and Ideology by Professor Chad Raphael.

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