Tutorial 100-26 | J. Pablo Silva | Grinnell College

Fall Semester 2007

Tutorial 100-27. The Origins of Capitalism

Week 1: August 30

Week 2: September 10

Week 3: September 17

Week 4: September 24

Week 5: October 1

Week 6: October 8

Week 7: October 15

Week 8: October 29

Week 9: November 5

Week 10: November 12

Week 11: November 119

Week 12: November 26

Week 13: December 3

Week 14: December 10

**The Key Ingredients (weeks 1-2)**
	What is Academic Study All About?
Sunday, 23 August	Read They Say / I Say, pp. ix-14.
	What is Primitive Accumulation?
Thursday, 27 August	Marx, Chaps. 26-29.
	What is Primitive Accumulation?
Tuesday, 1 September	Marx, Chaps. 30-33.
	How can we summarize Marx?
Thursday, 3 September	They Say / I Say, pp. 17-47.

Week 2	Paper Assignment: Which Ingredient Seems the Most Important?
Tuesday, 8 September	Group 1 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 2 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am
Thursday, 10 September	Group 3 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 4 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am

The Spirit of Capitalism (weeks 3-4)

Week 3	Why does Religion seem to matter?
Tuesday, 15 September	Weber, 13-92.
	Why Protestantism?
Thursday, 17 September	Weber, 95-183.


Week 4
	Paper Assignment: Is it Culture or History?
Tuesday, 22 September	Group 1 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 2 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am
Thursday, 24 September	Group 3 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 4 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am

A Neo-Classical Interpretation (weeks 5-6)

Week 5	Why do Costs matter?
Tuesday, 29 September	North & Thomas, 1-89.
	When was the line crossed?
Thursday, 1 October	North & Thomas, 91-158.

Week 6
	Paper Assignment: Can Economics Explain History?
Tuesday, 6 October	Group 1 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 2 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am
Thursday, 8 October	Group 3 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 4 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am

**The Neo-Marxist Perspective (Weeks 7-9)**
Week 7
	What did Brenner Think?
Tuesday, 13 October	Brenner, Agrarian Class Structure. Postan & Hatcher, Population & Class.

	How did his Critics Respond?
Thursday, 15 October	Croot & Parker, France & England

Fall Break, 20 October to 29 October

Week 8
	More Criticsm?
Tuesday, 27 October	Wunder, Class Conflict in Germany Ladurie, A Reply Bois, Against the Neo-Malthusian Hilton, Crisis of Feudalism Cooper, In Search of Agrarian Capitalism

	How does Brenner Respond?
Thursday, 29 October	The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism

Week 9
	Some late additions to the Brenner Debate
Tuesday, 27 October	TBD.

	Some late additions to the Brenner Debate
Thursday, 29 October	TBD.

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Week 10
	Paper Assignment: Class or Transaction Costs?
Tuesday, 3 November	Group 1 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 2 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am
Thursday, 5 November	Group 3 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 4 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am

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**Ideology & War (weeks 11-13)**
Week 11
Tuesday, 10 November	If not religion, what role ideas?
	Hirschman, 3-93.

Thursday, 12 November	Did Ideas matter?
	Hirschman, 93-135.

Week 12
Tuesday, 17 November	Let's Take a Different View?
	Power & Plenty, 1-142.

Thursday, 19 November	How do war and trade relate?
	Power & Plenty, 143-226.

Week 13
Tuesday, 24 November	What caused the industrial Revolution?
	Power & Plenty, 227-364.

Thursday, 26 November	Did Ideas matter?
	Power & Plenty, 365-425.

Week 14
	Paper Assignment: How would you explain the origins of capitalism?
Tuesday, 3 November	Group 1 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 2 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am
Thursday, 5 November	Group 3 Paper Tutorial, 8 to 9:30 am Group 4 Paper Tutorial, 9:30 to 11 am

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