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

A social history of finance: 
- 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