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Week 1, Jan. 6/8
DO ATTEND DISCUSSION
SECTIONS
READ:
— Heberlein
- Preface, Chapter 1 and 2
— Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature, Chap.
2. (This book is an attack on the environmental policies of
the Bush administration, so read it with a dose of skepticism. For
class purposes, the key section will be the brief historical review,
pp. 23-43. If you are interested in contrary views, politcally speaking,
see for example Jonathan Adler's National Review article,
“Kennedy’s Crimes Against Fact,” http://www.nationalreview.com/adler/adler200312030840.asp.
For a differing historical account that gives more credit to
Irving Kristol and William Simon, written for the Wall Street
Journal [by James Piereson, long-time Executive Director of
the John M. Olin Foundation], see http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB109037632023969457-IZjf4Nklal3oJyvbHyHaq2Am4.html)
Week 2, Jan. 13/15
READ:
— Heberlein,
Chapters 3 and 4
— Gardner
& Stern (G&S) Chapter 1 (Intro, Role of Human Behavior)
— Fairness
and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) annual summary of “Think Tank”
citations in mass media, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3129
—
“Home Page” self-descriptions of any two Think Tanks identified
in FAIR's Table on “Citations of Think Tanks in Media”
(at bottom of previous URL). Try to pick organizations having differing
political orientations, and compare them to each other.
Week 3, Jan. 20/22
READ:
— Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) study,
Policy
Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions
—
G&S Chapters 4 & 10 (“Educating,”“Choosing
Interventions”)
—
Frank Luntz memo on how to “handle”
environmental concerns
Week 4, Jan. 27/29
READ:
— G&S
Chapters 5 & 7 (Changing Incentives, Combining Strategies)
— Additional,
web-based assignments to be specified later
Week 5, Feb. 3/5
READ:
— G&S
Chapters 2 & 6 (Tragedy/Commons, Community Mgt/Commons)
— Additional,
web-based assignments to be specified later
Week 6, Feb. 10/12
Midterm Exam week;
no new reading assignments
—MID-TERM EXAM THURS., FEB. 12!! ‹—
Week 7, Feb. 17/19
READ:
— Justin
Rood Story on Weinberg Group:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4252096&page=1
— Weinberg
Group memo to DuPont on Perfluorooctanoic
acid (PFOA)
— Freudenburg
et al. article on "Scientific
Certainty" Argumentation Methods
— G&S
Chapter 3 (Religious/Moral Approaches; pp. 33-49 only;
don't bother with rest of chapter, starting middle of p. 49)
Week 8, Feb. 24/26
READ:
— G&S
Chapters 9, 11 (Reactions to Hazards, “Normal Accidents”)
Week 9, Mar. 3/5
READ:
—G&S
Chapter 12 (Chaos and the Future)
Week 10, Mar. 10/12
Dead week; no new readings. Review for final exam
Thursday, March 19, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.: FINAL EXAM
All course content, material and organization © 2009 by William
R. Freudenburg
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