Accompanied by folk music and armed with a smile, David Cobb began his lecture by asking the audience: “How many of you believe that ‘We the People’ are ruling in the United States?” When only a few hands went up, he continued, “This is a sign that America is being ruled by a small, few elite.”
[more]Corporations exert a substantial degree of power in contemporary American society. A controversial point of discussion is whether the constitutional rights afforded to corporations are legitimate in the context of today’s society. Should corporate rule be challenged to enforce American ideals of democracy fully?
[more]"System Dynamics in Policy Design and Analysis," designated ENGS 18, is a course at the Thayer School of Engineering that introduces systems dynamics, an approach to policy design and analysis based upon feedback principles and computer simulation. Goals of this approach are to gain better understanding of such problem behaviors and to design policies aimed at improving them.
[more]CANCELED DUE TO WORK EMERGENCY FOR MR. CASTELLANOS
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