PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Philia

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

Study of the emergence, evolution and transformations of opinions, ideas, doctrines and theories concerning how to explain economic phenomena. Have truth, who contributed to in past. Can only understand author if understand issues of the time. Material interests determine ideas, how we think. If elite, how we think about world rationalizes system in which we live (defend interests), i. e. mercantilism written about and defended by merchants (and was dominant economic thought) Plato: wrote first utopian novel, disciple of socrates (always q"d what people thought to be true, showing people their ignorance, asked to kill himself and does) Plato: though nonsense, his community force greatest thinker to kill self so system doesn"t work well, built on previous foundations (writes the. Have everything in commons for guardians so forget about i so think about we (women and children as public property) Had never ben a society will things in commons.