Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Darren Bush (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 1:00p-2:30p MW Location: 207
Course Outline: When Congress passed the antitrust laws, they expressed concern about the relationship between economic power and political power. Beyond the populist movements of the 1890s, additional legislation was passed post-World War II, with concern that economic power could lead to political control, totalitarianism, and the erosion of democracy. This course explores the economic foundations of freedom, democracy, and capitalism, and the structures and dynamics that cause their erosion. Readings will be assigned from the literatures of economics, law, psychology, and history.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Conditional Availability (not for required credits)
Course Materials
No book required for this course
Course Materials: Materials are linked in the course syllabus - no book to purchase.
