UU - Inequality and Democracy 

1.0.1 Welcome to the course

1.1.2 Economic inequality around the world

1.2.1 Causes of inequality

1.3.1 When is inequality (un)just?

1.4.1 Inequality and Democracy: The road ahead

1.0.2 About the course

1.1.1 In this week

1.2.2 Case study: The rise of bosses pay in the USA

1.3.2 The fairness of inequality: a philosophical debate

1.5.1 Want more?

1.1.3 What about you?

1.2.3 Causes of inequality

1.3.3 Theories of justice: What do you know?

1.4.2 Democracy at stake

2.1.2 Private property as a legal construct

2.2.1 The business corporation as a legal construct

2.3.1 The superior efficiency of private property

2.4.1 Economic power and political power

2.1.1 Property and corporations

2.2.2 The purpose of corporations: a historical tale

2.2.4 Friedman on the purpose of business

2.3.2 The corporation ? efficiency and power

2.4.2 Cycles of economic and political power

2.5.2 Want more?

2.1.3 Private property ? what it is(n?t)

2.1.4 The History of property

2.2.3 Do you know the business corporation?

2.3.3 It?s all about efficiency!

2.4.3 Some questions about power

3.1.2 Defining democracy

3.2.1 Democracy for the common good

3.3.1 Property and power in history

3.4.1 Political inequality today

3.1.1 In this module

3.1.4 Characteristics of real democracies

3.2.2 Plato against democracy

3.2.4 Democracy for intrinsic reasons

3.3.3 Their money or their rights

3.4.2 Economic elite domination

3.4.3 Why unequal turn-out matters

3.5.2 Want more?

3.1.3 Basic ideas in democratic theory

3.3.2 Historical fixes

3.4.4 Political inequality in the UK and US

4.1.2 An intro to campaigning and lobbying

4.2.1 The dominance of the rich

4.3.1 What are the arguments in favour?

4.4.1 Regulating campaign finance

4.1.1 In this module

4.1.3 Lobbying and campaign finance around the world

4.2.2 Does campaign spending work?

4.3.2 Corruption and political inequality

4.4.3 Experiments with public funding

4.5.2 Reading: want more?

4.1.4 What do you know about campaigning and lobbying?

4.2.3 Can you tell?

4.3.3 Lobbying and campaign finance: pro and con

4.4.2 Regulations where you live

5.1.2 Types of capital flight

5.2.1 The race to the bottom

5.3.1 Exposing secrets, closing loopholes

5.4.1 The capital flight trilemma

5.1.1 In this module

5.1.3 Case studies

5.2.2 The impact of capital flight

5.3.2 Getting rid of tax havens

5.5.2 Want more?

5.1.4 Classifying capital flight

5.2.3 Consequences of capital flight

5.3.3 The financial secrecy index

5.4.2 Responding to real capital flight

6.1.2 Property-owning democracy

6.2.1 Workplace democracy

6.3.1 Common property regimes

6.4.1 A theory of transformation

6.1.1 In this module

6.1.3 Thomas Paine?s agrarian justice

6.1.4 Community wealth funds

6.2.3 Codetermination in Germany

6.3.3 The knowledge commons

6.3.4 Energy cooperatives

6.4.2 Pathways to an equal society

6.5.2 Want more?

6.6.1 Acknowledgements and Biographies

6.6.2 Final survey

6.1.5 Property-owning democracy

6.2.2 Case study: Mondragon

6.3.2 Basic concepts

6.4.3 Strategies for change