Assignments for week 3

For Tuesday, February 26th: 

1. Skim Chapter 8 of Seeing Like a State, ‘Taming Nature.'   Examples in this chapter will be relevant to many of the challenges we study, re: poverty alleviation.
2. Read Chapters 9 and 10 very carefully.
3. Come to class prepared to talk, with substance, about a 21^st Century challenge you are considering studying over the next ten weeks.  And be prepared, most importantly, to begin to elucidate how the themes of Scott’s book might apply to building solutions to the challenge that you have identified. 

For Thursday, February 28th:

1. Read ‘Solutions When the Solution it the Problem.'

2. Read a selection – to be shared with you on Monday - from Bill Easterly’s White Man’s Burden.
3. View this 40-minute lecture from Jeffrey Sachs, on the end of poverty.
4. View this report from PBS, which features both Easterly and Sachs.

Grading

And let me formalize what I said last week, re: how this class will be graded:

25%      Your midterm exam

35%      Your course portfolio, as documented on your notebook.

40%      Your project