Differing Worldviews in Higher Education

Cover......Page 1
Differing Worldviews in HigherEducation......Page 4
ISBN: 9789460913501 (paperback)......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8
WHAT ARE THE GOALS FOR THIS BOOK?......Page 10
THE BOOK’S FORMAT......Page 15
CHAPTER 2: ACADEMIC FREEDOM......Page 18
CHAPTER 3: ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE......Page 46
AIR......Page 48
FORESTS......Page 50
FRESH WATER......Page 51
OCEANS......Page 52
OVER-POPULATION......Page 53
SPECIES EXTINCTION......Page 54
POLLUTION......Page 56
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE?......Page 58
BUFFALOS AND BARNYARDS......Page 59
THE OCEANS......Page 60
SEEJ IN HIGHER EDUCATION......Page 61
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 62
POLLUTION......Page 63
BUFFALOS AND BARNYARDS......Page 66
THE OCEANS......Page 72
RIVERS......Page 77
GANDHI AND MATERIALISM......Page 78
SEEJ IN HIGHER EDUCATION......Page 84
OTHER REMARKS......Page 85
A FEW MORE ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS......Page 86
THE “INVISIBLE HAND”......Page 91
FREE ENTERPRISE AND REGULATION......Page 92
GREED AND SHRIMP......Page 93
ONLY TWO CATEGORIES......Page 94
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND EXTINCTION......Page 95
MCDONALDS, GOLF COURSES, ETC.......Page 96
GLOBAL WARMING AND OZONE DEPLETION......Page 97
FOR HUMANS ONLY......Page 98
NOTES......Page 121
CHAPTER 4: WEALTH DISTRIBUTION......Page 122
DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY OF MONEY......Page 124
WHAT ABOUT THE POOR?......Page 126
REPARATIONS......Page 127
MORE PRODUCTIVE?......Page 132
NEW ORLEANS, “TOO BUSY PARTYING?”......Page 133
SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS......Page 134
NON EXISTENCE OF FULL LAISSEZ FAIRE CAPITALISM......Page 135
STATISTICAL DISPARITIES......Page 136
VIOLENCE......Page 137
UNIONS......Page 140
UNIONS AND WORKING CONDITIONS......Page 142
WORKERS PRODUCE NOTHING?......Page 143
THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISES......Page 144
SWEAT SHOPS......Page 146
OUTSOURCING......Page 147
CEO AND JANITORIAL SALARIES......Page 148
NEW ORLEANS......Page 151
SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS......Page 152
MINIMUM WAGE......Page 154
SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS......Page 158
UTOPIAN PROBLEM......Page 159
OIL SPILLS......Page 161
YOUR QUESTIONS......Page 162
LIVING IN AFRICA......Page 163
INDIGENOUS ECONOMICS......Page 164
UTOPIAN PROBLEM......Page 166
FORCED WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION......Page 167
OIL SPILLS......Page 169
TOO MUCH REGULATION......Page 170
VIOLENCE......Page 171
INDIGENOUS ECONOMICS......Page 172
ADAM SMITH, ONCE AGAIN......Page 175
REPARATIONS......Page 176
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS......Page 177
CHAPTER 5: A CASE STUDY: Protesting Arizona’s Anti-hispanic Legislation
......Page 182
IMMIGRATION LAW......Page 184
ETHNIC STUDIES, QUEER STUDIES, BLACK STUDIES, MULTICULTURAL STUDIES, FEMINIST STUDIES, ETC......Page 185
RACIAL AND SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION; PROFILING......Page 186
TO BOYCOTT OR NOT TO BOYCOTT......Page 191
DISCRIMINATION......Page 195
ETHNIC “STUDIES”......Page 197
VIOLENCE AND LIBERTARIANISM......Page 198
CULTURE OF GREED......Page 203
COOPERATION AND COMPETITION......Page 204
“FREE MARKET ” SCARE QUOTES......Page 206
BLACK LUNCH COUNTER, KKK CUSTOMER......Page 208
ETHNIC STUDIES......Page 209
BRITISH PETROLEUM......Page 211
HOMOSEXUALS......Page 213
“FREE MARKET ” SCARE QUOTES......Page 214
“FREE MARKET” SCARE QUOTES......Page 217
RACISM......Page 218
COMPETITION......Page 219
NOTES......Page 220
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION: Disagreement, Non-violence and Friendship
......Page 222
CHAPTER 2: ACADEMIC FREEDOM......Page 226
CHAPTER 3: ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE......Page 228
CHAPTER 4: WEALTH DISTRIBUTION......Page 234
CHAPTER 5: A CASE STUDY: PROTESTING ARIZONA’S ANTI-HISPANIC LEGISLATION......Page 242
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 244