How Karl Polanyi makes sense of our politics
Update 2/20/2017: I have a related essay in the Chronicle Review, assessing Gareth Dale’s Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. Karl Polanyi’s arguments keep getting trotted out, thought I, without […]
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Democratic Socialism across the Americas
UPDATE 6/13/2016: The full essay and the debate around it is now up at the Dissent web site, with very smart responses from Sujatha Fernandes, Thea Riofrancos, Bryan McCann, and Javier […]
Syllabus for Spring 2015: Ideologies of Social Justice in the Twentieth Century
Political Economy 160 Ideologies of Social Justice in the Twentieth Century Professor Patrick Iber Spring 2015 / MW 4-5:30 / 56 Barrows Office Hours: Stephens 140; Friday 12-2 The twentieth […]
Syllabus for Spring 2015: Market Empire and American Foreign Intervention
International and Area Studies 150 Market Empire and American Foreign Intervention Professor Patrick Iber Spring 2015 / MWF 11-12 / 122 Wheeler Office Hours: Stephens 140, Friday 12-2 The […]
Syllabus, Fall 2014: The Problem of Inequality (and how to solve it)
IAS 194 The Problem of Inequality (And How to Solve It) Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2014 / W 2-4 / 125 Dwinelle Office Hours: Stephens 140; W 10-12 and […]
In which I read David Brat’s dissertation so you don’t have to
By a series of improbable near-coincidences, I happened to be looking at the dissertation of David Brat today, on the day after he defeated Eric Cantor in the Republican primary. […]
Latin American Revolutions syllabus, Fall 2013
Latin American Revolutions: Causes, Consequences, Myths and Memories Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2013 / Wed. 10-12AM / 3104 Dwinelle This course will examine the causes, consequences, and legacies of Latin […]
¿Padece el liberalismo una tentación imperial?
Mi colaboración con la “autocrítica liberal” de la revista Letras Libres, “¿Padece el liberalismo una tentación imperial?” El problema: El imperialismo es, sin duda, una forma de negar lalibertad. Y […]
Empires of Liberty
This brief essay, Empires of Liberty, will be published in Spanish by Letras Libres in April 2013, as part of a special issue of self-criticism of and within the liberal tradition. […]
International Workers’ Day
The University of Chicago’s economics department is famous for its conservatism, especially in the era when Milton Friedman was its most notorious member. In those days the economics department was […]
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