Audio Files of the Fall 2008 Class Sessions

• Aug 25 (46.3 MB) General overview of the class.
• Sep 2 (49.6 MB, 54 minutes) Why does Marx start with the commodity. Exchange-value intrinsic and relative because it the the relative expression of an intrinsic content, namely of the labor content.
• Sep 9 (48.0 MB, 52 minutes) Elements of E-mail style
• Sep 16 (39.4 MB, 43 minutes) Form of Value
• Sep 19 (51.7 MB, 56 minutes) Better discussion of Form of Value
• Sep 23 (60.0 MB, 1 hour 5 minutes) Exam, Commodity Fetishism, Global Warming, with Michael Mielke and Lance Christie
• Sep 26 (52 minutes) Exam and more systematic discussion of Commodity Fetishism
• Oct 7 (27.8 MB, 30 minutes) Chapter Two
• Oct 10 (44.3 MB, 48 minutes) Chapter Two and Three Section 1
• Oct 21 (56.4 MB, 61 minutes) Steady State Economy, Looking at Circulation from Form Side
• Oct 24 (49.1 MB, 54 minutes) Money example of emergence, Forms of Capitalism
• Oct 28 (44.7 MB, 49 minutes) Money as money, capital is value in motion
• Oct 31 (55.4 MB, 60 minutes) Detailed review of chapter 4, Marxist analysis of financial crisis
• Nov 4 (46.8 MB, 51 minutes) Renewable Energy
• Nov 7 (45.4 MB, 49 minutes) Chapters 5 and 6, and: economic variables which are not determined by economic mechanisms in Marxian theory.
• Nov 11 (60.4 MB, 66 minutes) Chapters 4, 5, 6, 10, 12.
• Nov 14 (49.9 MB, 54 minutes) Chapters 10, 12, role of unions, environmental challenges.
• Dec 2 (49.9 MB, 55 minutes) General Motors bailout, Obama, Green Development Rights.
• Dec 5 (48.7 MB, 53 minutes) Clarification about necessary labor, General Motors bailout, Feed-In Tariffs.
• Dec 9 (50.1 MB, 55 minutes) Marxism and Critical Realism, chapter 25.

Audio files for Fall 2009 and Spring 2008.