Sumários
Lesson 3.1 - Marx, commodities, and value
24 Fevereiro 2026, 12:00 • EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI
Recap of previous module
The many lives of Marxian economics: the socialist experiment, the 2008 financial crisis
Labor theories of value in Aristotle, Adam Smith and David Ricardo
In-class activity: the commodity in Marx
Lesson 2.2 - Durkheim and the division of labor
12 Fevereiro 2026, 12:00 • EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI
Recap of previous module and in-class activity
The division of labor in society: simple and complex societies, mechanical and organic solidarity, individualism, anomie
Lesson 2.1 - Durkheim and social facts
10 Fevereiro 2026, 12:00 • EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI
Recap of previous module
The division of labor in economics: Adam Smith, Henry Ford, Milton Friedman
Social facts according to Durkheim: general/external/coercive, morphology/practices/currents, 3 rules for explanation
In-class activity
Lesson 1.2 - Weber and the Protestant Ethic
5 Fevereiro 2026, 12:00 • EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI
In-class activity debrief (typology of social action)
Weber's thesis on the Protestant Ethic: predestination, vocation, asceticism, accounting, profit-making and instrumental rationality. The Iron Cage.
Introductory lesson (2)
4 Fevereiro 2026, 16:53 • BRUNO MIGUEL DA SILVA GOMES
Recap: the ultimatum game and W.E.I.R.D. modern societies
- contested commodities (including, Land, Labor and Money)
- the usury taboo and the normalization of financial activity
- overview history of financial instruments
- the 2008 financial crisis: systemic mechanics and the perspective from critical macrofinance