Greetings!
Just a reminder, especially for those that didn't make the Monday meeting...
Our first two "Sociotechnocanonicon" reading group meetings will be focused on discussing Douglass North's "Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance." Meetings times are:
1. Friday (TOMORROW) June 25 at 12pm Pacific, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern (the Soft Block time) — We'll be discussing Part I (~70 pages)
2. Wednesday (6/30) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central, 4pm Eastern (TENATIVE/TBC) — We'll be discussing Part II & III (the rest of the book)
Both meetings are planned for an hour and are on the group calendar.
A link to the text and information on choosing the next books are in my message sent last week which I think all of you should have already.
Regards, Mako
<quote who="Benj. Mako Hill" date="Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 07:51:17PM -0700">
Greetings!
Although we haven't nailed down a time yet, I wanted to circulate the text for the first reading for Sociotechnocanonicon (STC)—the CDSC's annual summer Great Books reading group.
The first book we'll read is economic historians Douglass North's "Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance."
You can grab a soft copy of the book here:
https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/Pa9gm5Pa7q0W4dah/north-institutions_change_...
For context, many of the collective members reading their exams who are interested in governance and there's been expressed excitement to read a few of classics from the literature on goverance. More details below.
Anyone planning on participating should plan to read "Part I on Institutions" (~70 pages) by the (still TBD!) time we meet next week. Keep in mind that we might meet early in the week so start reading early! If we can't get a meeting time nailed down for next week, we will plan to discuss the whole book the week of the 28th.
What else is on the menu for STC this summer? Well, it's up to you! There are already a bunch of great suggestions from this year (and from previous years!) on the page in the wiki:
https://wiki.communitydata.science/Sociotechnocanonicon
We'll discuss some plan for choosing future books that gives priority to the needs of students reading for their exams, a desire to read group-relevant "classics" for which there are few other opportunities in classes and such, and general enthusiasm. :)
As mentioned above, there a bunch of interest in governance this year so likely candidates from previous conversations including some work on legitmacy in governance from political scientist Maragaret Levi (a friend and collaborator of Elinor Ostrom) and Jenna Bednar's book on federation.
We've had a history of guests in the past and that's been really quite nice. If folks want to invite others they they think might be interested, that's fine. Maybe mention it on IRC? But let's not blast it out to mailing lists or anything. :)
Regards, Mako
P.S. I checked out North's book's page on Open Syllabus project and was impressed by the excellent company the book seems to keep!
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