Thinking About Business and Economics, Pt. 2

Achbar, Mark, Joel Bakan and Mark Cole. “The Beast With No Name.” The Brooklyn Rail (July 2004)

Alexander, Keith L. and Albert B. Crenshaw. “United Says Pensions’ Termination Likely: Airline Looking to Cut Costs.” The Washington Post (August 20, 2004)

“The Alternative Fix: Americans are Spending Billions on Alternative Mediacla Treatments. And Major Hospitals and Medical Schools are Embracing Them. But Do They Work?” Frontline (PBS: 2003)

The Beige Book. The Federal Reserve Board – A summary of business and economic trends for 12 districts: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers information from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. 8 issues per year.


Boushey, Heather. “Analysis of the Upcoming Release of 2003 Data on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance.” Center for Economic and Policy Research (August 19, 2004)

Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Working Moms and Child Care.” Center for Economic and Policy Research (May 5, 2004)

Bowcott, Owen. “Makeup and Marketing—Welcome to the World of 10 Year Old Girls.” Guardian (September 8, 2004)

“Boycott World Bank Bonds.” Campus Activism (2004)

Clarke, Ben. “Leaving Children Behind: Exam Privatization Threatens Public Schools.” Corpwatch (September 23, 2004)

“Companies With Highest Levels Of Employee Injury and Illness.” The Memory Hole (compilation of sources/reports: August 2004)

“The Conscious Consumer.” Center For a New American Dream (ongoing project: 2004)

Consumer Software Working Group. “Examples of Unfair, Devious or Deceptive Practices Involving Software Version 1.0.” Center for Democracy and Technology (April 19, 2004)

Critical Art Ensemble. Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies and New Eugenic Consciousness. (Autonomedia, 1998)

---. Molecular Invasion. (Autonomedia, 2002)

---. “The Therapeutic State.” (2004: Online Visual and Textual Project)

Cusumano, Michael. “Strategy For High Tech Companies—What To Think About.” MIT World (June 5, 2004)

“Dangerous Prescription: More Than a Dozen Dangerous Drugs Have Been Pulled Off the Market Since 1997. Why were they approved in the first place? An investigation of America’s drug safety program.” Frontline (PBS: November 2003)

Davis, Lisa Selin. “New Orleans Faces Off With Wal-Mart.” Preservation (March 19, 2004)

Donnelly, David. “Selling the White House to the Top Bidder: The Vice President claims that the economy has been boosted by the eBay phenomenon; however, if anyone has profited, it's the Bush administration.” (September 15, 2004)

Donnis, Ian. “A jolt with a difference: Cafés, co-ops, small roasters, and religious groups are fueling the popularity of Fair Trade coffee, which pays small growers a living wage.” The Boston Phoenix (August 20-26, 2004)

Dreier, Peter. “Poverty in the Suburbs.” The Nation (September 2, 2004)

Dreilling, Geri L. “The Women of Wal-Mart: A gender discrimination lawsuit offers a glimpse inside the nation's largest private employer and its treatment of women. It ain't pretty.” Alternet (September 16, 2004)

Dube, Arindrajit and Ken Jacobs. “Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs.” Center for Labor Research and Education: University of California—Berkeley (August 2, 2004)

Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Serving in Florida.” The New York Times (excerpt from Ehrenreich’s book Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America: 2001)

Ehrenreich, Barbara and James Fallow. “Working Classes.” Atlantic Monthly (May 2, 2001)

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Juan Williams. “Nickle and Dimed.” NPR (May 16, 2001)

Fingleton, Eamonn. “Stop the World: Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson is second-guessing globalism.” The American Prospect (September 17, 2004)

Flournoy, Craig. “Red Dawn in Dallas: The Morning News has a publisher who wants a ‘revolution.’ Tough investigative reporting is one of his calls to arms. Will a wary newsroom rise up?” Columbia Journalism Review (May/June 2004)

Heuvel, Katrina Vanden. “Clear Channel vs. The First Amendment.” The Nation (March 4, 2004)

Hill, Dave. “Educational Perversion and Global Neo-Liberalism: A Marxist Perversion.” Cultural Logic (September 2004)

“Housing Bubble.” Center For Economic and Policy Research (Ongoing Archive: 2004)

“In Depth: Niall Ferguson.” Book TV (august 28, 2004)

“Institutional Purchasing.” Center For a New American Dream (Ongoing Project: 2004)

Justice, Glen. “Businesses Plan Attack on Edwards.” New York Times (August 24, 2004)

Kaplan, Jeffrey. “The Consent of the Governed: The Reign of Corporations and the Fight for Democracy.” Orion (November/December 2003)

Keeney, Dennis. “Our Fragile Food Supply: Food is full of paradoxes. Currently there is enough produced to adequately feed the 6 billion people on the planet. Yet nearly a billion are underfed. In the rich United States, 35 million people, including nearly 13 million children, experience hunger or the threat of hunger. Yet at least that many Americans are obese.” Alternet (Spetember 12, 2004)

“Kids and Commercialism.” Center For a New American Dream (2004)

Klein, Naomi. “Baghdad Year Zero.” Harper’s (September 2004)

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. “The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know About America’s Economic Future.” MIT World (April 28, 2004)

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. “Los Angeles Requires Economic Impact Studies for Supercenters.” Hometown Advantage (August 17, 2004)

Lydersen, Kari. “Bottled Water Blues: The residents of Mecosta County, Michigan, didn't take kindly to a giant multinational's move to divert springwater from their lakes and streams into bottles and profits.” Alternet (June 3, 2003)

Maharidge, Dale. “Rust and Rage in the Heartland.” The Nation (September 2, 2004)

Margulies, Anne H. “The OpenCourseWare Initiative: A New Model for Sharing.” MIT World (March 23, 2004)

McCollam, Douglas. “How Often do Newspapers and Magazines Goose Their Numbers?” Columbia Journalism Review (May/June 2004)

Meyer, Lawrence. “A Term at the Fed.” Book TV (August 7, 2004)

Miller, Laura. “Scraping By.” Salon (May 9, 2001)

Mitchell, Katharyne. “Multiculturalism, Or the United Colors of Capitalism.” Antipode 25.4 (1993)

Modotti, Alex. “We Used to Call That Imperialism: Salvadoran Resistance to Bush’s Central American Free Trade Agreement.” Clamor #28 (September/October 2004)

Morris, David. “More Public, Less Private.” Alternet (April 23, 2003)

Moyers, Bill. “Outsourcing and Patriotism.” Alternet (August 21, 2004)

Nace, Ted. “Putting Corporations on the Couch.” Dragonfly Review (June 2004) http://www.dragonflymedia.com/review/june/lead.html

Ollman, Bertell. “Marxism and Progress.” Cultural Logic (September, 2004: Rethinking Marxism Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 10/04) http://eserver.org/clogic/2004/ollman.html

“The Other Drug War: America’s War Over Prescription Drugs Has Dragged On for Nearly Twenty Years. Why are the Drugs so Expensive? And Can Prices Be Controlled Without Jeopardizing Innovation?” Frontline (PBS: June 2003) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/other/

Parenti, Christian. “Fables of Reconstruction.” Alternet (originally published in The Nation: August 18, 2004) http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19589/

Pearlstein, Steven. “The Wal-Mart Effect.” Washington Post (October 29, 2003) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A29672-2003Oct28¬Found=true

Postrell, Virginia. “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress.” Book TV (1999) http://booktv.org/booknotes/index.asp?schedid=289&segid=4860

Rajiva, Lila. “Cleaning House.” Alternet (February 5, 2004) http://www.alternet.org/story/17763/

---. “Synthetic Science.” Alternet (February 24, 2004) http://www.alternet.org/story/17933/

Reich, Robert B. “Bankruptcy—The Real Story: Employees should be the first priority of a company entering bankruptcy -- not creditors.” The American Prospect (September 16, 2004) http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8501

Ruccio, David and Joseph Buttigieg. “’All That Is Holy Is Profaned’: The Market and the University.” Cultural Logic (September, 2004: Lecture at Rethinking Marxism Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 11/03) http://eserver.org/clogic/2004/ruccio_buttigieg.html

Schwarz, Ari. “Testimony Before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Hearing on ‘Spyware’.” Center for Democracy & Technology (April 29, 2004) http://www.cdt.org/testimony/20040429schwartz.pdf

Stanley, Eduardo. “The Farm Workers’ Union Dives Into Electoral Politics.” NCM (September 9, 2004) http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=7e95f1c0ba2c9df977ddd4f68a41fce1

Taibbi, Matt. “Walk Like a Mannequin: The new Levi's ad campaign speaks to corporate America's secret wish to turn us all into dummies.” Alternet (Spetember 8, 2004) http://www.alternet.org/story/19809/

“Tax Me If You Can: Inside the Bogus Tax Shelter Business—The Companies Involved, The Schemes Concocted, and How the Ultimate Victim is the American Taxpayer.” Frontline (PBS: February 20, 2004) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tax/

Tiefer, Charles. “The Downside of the Competitive Sourcing Initiative.” University of Baltimore School of Law (Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management: 2004) http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/072403tiefer.pdf

Toner, Alan. “Dissembly Language: Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society.” Mute (Autumn 2004) http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=26&NrSection=10&NrArticle=873&ST_max=0

“Tour the World Economy Through 10 Short Films.” Center For a New American Dream (Ongoing Project: 2004) http://www.newdream.org/consumer/video.html

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. “The State of Copyright Activism.” First Monday (February 12, 2004) http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue9_4/siva/

Verloy, Andre and Daniel Politi. “Halliburton Contracts Balloon: Despite Being Under an Investigative Cloud, Company Gets $4.3 Billion in 2003.” The Center for Public Integrity (August 18, 2004) http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/report.aspx?aid=366&sid=100

“The Wall Street Fix: The Story of World Com and Its Investment Bankers is an All-American Tale of Big Ambition, Big Money, and Big Deception.” Frontline (PBS: May 8, 2003) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/

Warrick, Joby. “Appalachia is Paying the Price for White House Rule Change.” Washington Post (August 17, 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6462-2004Aug16.html

“The Way the Music Died: A Look at the Troubled Music Industry and Tough New Realities Facing Aspiring Artists.” Frontline (2004) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/view/

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