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An online course that will present all of the significant content of the book, THE HEIST: how the rich and corporations stole the American dream.
There will be approximately 8 illustrated lectures in digestible 30 1minute chunks.
Signed up to receive an email notice when the course launches. The price will be ~ $12.99. Set to be accessible for most.
Course Outline
- Introduction to the course (10 minutes)
- The $79 trillion transfer from the bottom 90% to the top 10% over the past 50 years
- the top-down social movement
- changes to laws and regulations
- structural changes in the economy that drive the heist
- Insecurity for the bottom 90% over the past 50 years
- Financialization of the real economy
- Money and Banking
- Other troubling features of capitalism
- Why orthodox economics is not usefu
- Concluding Thoughts – a progressive agenda and the long view
- Support Classes
- Envisioning big numbers – trillions
- Understanding charts and graphs