Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism

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Corporate Assignments

Fall 2009
Ant 362a
Global Issues

These are your corporate investments.  As an investor (capitalist) you expect your investments to yield a profit. If you buy stocks or mutual funds or dabble in commodities, you expect to your money to "reproduce." However the process through which money "grows" is often hidden, or conveniently overlooked. Your task in this report is to examine the social, political, or economic costs of the reproduction of money. First, you need to follow your investment to see whether or not your money "reproduced." But more importantly, you need to research how your corporation went about reproducing your money. In what sort of conditions did workers labor? What were the environmental costs of producing whatever it was your corporation produced? What sort of political power does your corporation assert? What are the economic or social costs of production?

You may find that your corporation is very responsible; but you have to also remember that the sort of information that you want is not something that corporations (or the state, for that matter) wants you to know. Consequently you need to do some real searching. Our website (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy/corporate_resources.htm) provides some excellent resources for you to start with; just go to internet resources, then to corporations (or the capitalist) to begin. Multinational Monitor and Corporate Watch are both good places to start; you may also went to go to the site on "Researching Corporations." But don't neglect library resources, either newspapers (e.g. the NY Times index), or other searchable databases.

Last Name First Name

Corporation

Bragg Crystal UnitedHealth Group
Britton Chadd Procter & Gamble
Burnell Ian American International Group
Cook Larry Monsanto
Crowningshield Brittany General Motors
Duquette Lindsay Costco Wholesale
Farrow Phillip Hershey
Felio Alyssa Citigroup
Hodgens Kari Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Thomas Caterpillar
Jones Alicia Sunoco
Kaneko Chiharu PepsiCo
Leach Ashley Walgreen
McQueen Joseph Penske Automotive Group
Martinez Judaisy Kraft Foods
Mesones Tabare Walt Disney
Meuser Courtney United Parcel Service
Nolan Collin Comcast
Olsen Sierra News Corp.
Perrin Kerstin Northrop Grumman Corporation
Riley Taylor Coca-Cola
Rinaldi Lisa-Marie General Dynamics
Rose Gabrielle Washington Mutual
Rulfs Laura Fannie Mae
Schock George Countrywide Financial
Senecal David McDonald's
Seymour Raymond Wyeth
Sumar Zohra Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Yoshida Shohei Occidental Petroleum
Yu Dafeng J.C. Penney

 

 

 

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