WDW101Y1 Lecture : WDW340 February 5 2012.docx

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19 Apr 2012

School

UTSG

Department

Woodsworth College Courses

Course

WDW101Y1

Professor

William Watson

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Sociologists of inequality; fundamentally we live in structured unequal societies and this needs to be understood when examining institutions. Governments are not by the people for the people; they are by the dominant group for that group. Government in western liberal society is for capitalism (and for capitalists) Recognize what"s going on in governing and punishment is that people"s interests are being met but most dominant group is most satisfied. Restitutive rather than repressive punishment, celebration of superiority of social order over individual. Foucault - society is not liberal democratic or capitalist, not organic solidarity, but disciplined. Durkheim; things happen behind people"s backs, foucault is saying that we should resist modernity - not necessarily go back; personal freedom involves each of us to resist against the discipline of modernity. Foucault; modern systems of discipline emerged as products of intellectual/practical developments; science, math, military, industrial disciplines.

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1. Economists are particularly adept at understanding that people respond to

a. laws.

b. incentives

c. punishments more than rewards.

d. rewards more than punishments.

2. Government policies can change the costs and benefits that people face. Those policies have the potential to

a. alter people's behaviour.

b. alter people's decisions at the margin.

c. produce results that policymakers did not intend.

d. All of the above are correct.

3. Penny is a piano teacher and Dan is a tile layer. If Penny teaches Dan's daughter to play the piano in exchange for Dan tiling her kitchen floor,

a. only Penny is made better off by trade.

b. only Dan is made better off by trade.

c. both Penny and Dan are made better off by trade.

d. neither Penny nor Dan are made better off by trade.

4. The basic principles of economics suggest that

a. markets are seldom if ever, a good way to organize economic activity

b. government should become involved in markets when trade between countries is involved.

c. government should become involved in markets when those markets fail to produce efficient or fair outcomes.

d. All of the above are correct.

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