Issues
How is the modern food industry connected to capitalism and the free market? What are the main criticisms of global capitalism and what can be done to improve the system?
Readings
- https://prospect.org/economy/limits-markets/
- Robert Albritton (2013) “Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry” in Food and Culture: A Reader edited by Carole Counihan & Penny van Esterik, Routledge, New York-London. Available online at: http://stravaganzastravaganza.blogspot.hk/2013/02/between-obesity-and-hunger-capitalist.html
- A short review and summary of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century – http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/thomas-piketty-capital-surprise-bestseller
- http://www.earthamag.org/stories/2018/1/29/our-food-system-isnt-broken-capitalism-is-what-is-wrong-with-it
- An interview with Robert Albritton – https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0ac4/a4e0543e5337b58719dff8d791c4e82b2604.pdf
- Paul Krugman’s review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century – http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/
- Piketty in four paragraphs: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains
CCHU9005 Food and Values 