Urban Leadership Foundation
A hub for leadership training in cities and among the world's 1.4 billion slum-dwellers
Students will contrast some major Development Economics theories against Biblical principles.
Biblical reflections on some major Economic Development theories.
Students will review theories behind cooperative economics
The Nature of the Cooperative Movement
The Rochester Principles
There have been a diversity of cooperative attempts that have lead to State socialism.
Contrast of prime elements of Marxism, Socialism and Cooperative Movements
Two Sector Theories
Marginalization Theories
Jane Jacobs Urban Economics
Urban Geography and slum locations
Introductory readings in economic theory that affect the Informal Sector. Readings in Economic Theories
Students will be able to describe aspects of global economics that affect the slums: the two circuits, trade between cities, conditions for achievement orientatioin, religious/psychological preconditions in cultures for economic take-off and the effects of these on lower circuit release of entrepreneurs
Historic morphing of Protestant Capitalism into Global Capitalism
Realities: Idealised American Capitalism vs Democratic Capitaism
The Role of the State: Political Economics
Critique of Global Captialism: Release of billions from poverty or the utimate oppression of the masses?