Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Depressions and Politics, 1930s and Today

UPDATE: HW: **Check your SAS Gmail**

Miss Class? (Shiv, Jake):
We read and discussed the Krugman article about economics and politics in today's Recession/Depression Europe (download the article/worksheet here), then started watching the following film about the relation of depression economics to society and politics--in the rise of Hitler.
You'll be writing a paper on this, so be sure you can discuss the relevance of Hitler's rise to today's Europe (and the U.S.).

We also watched these doozies about right wing Tea Party protesters confronting center-left (moderate) Democrats in the U.S. after the Recession hit there:








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