Why is the U.S. Fucked Up? 8 Lectures from Occupy Harvard Teach-In Provide Answers

Last Wednesday, the Occupy movement gained a little more intellectual momentum when eight faculty members from Harvard, Boston College, and N.Y.U. gathered in Cambridge to present a daylong Teach-In. In one talk, Archon Fung (Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of Transparency Policy Project at Harvard) took a vague thesis of the Occupy movement — “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” — and gave it some academic depth in a data-filled talk called “Why Has Inequality Grown in America? And What Should We Do About It?” The other talks are available on YouTube (see links below) or via audio stream:

Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of Transparency Policy Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Archon Fung - Why Has Inequality Grown in America? What Should We Do?

Stephen Marglin, Walter Barker Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Stephen Marglin Heterodox Economics: Alternatives to Mankiw's Ideology

Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Richard Parker - Wall Streetʼs Role in the European Financial Crisis

Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Andrew Ross - The Occupy Movement and Student Debt Refusal

Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College

Juliet Schor - Economics for the 99%

Christine Desan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

Christine Desan - Booms and Busts: The Legal Dynamics of Modern Money

Brad Epps, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Department Chair for Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Brad Epps - Fear and Power

John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

John Womack, Vigilance, Inquiry, Alienation & Hope at Harvard and in the US