Locke & Folbre

Please read the 2 attached files & answer the questions below. You don’t need to re write the question just the number. 

Folbre: Greed, Lust, and Gender

1.According to Folbre, when did patriarchal family based economies come about? What eventually weakened it?

2.What’s the difference between “selfish” and “”self-interest”?

 1.What is the gender component to this distinction?

 2.What are the vices of selfishness?

3.According to Folbre, what are the problems associated with the neo-classical models’ assumptions that people know what their preferences are?

4.Why does Folbre argue that Capitalist societies have never been pure market societies? What have these societies relied upon and why?

5.How did early socialists feminists such as Owen view conventional norms of appropriate economic and sexual interest?

John Locke: Property

1.How did possessions come about? Who possessed?

2.What is the basis of private or individual property for Locke?

3.According to Locke what are the conditions for acquiring property or how are we bounded to the property?

4.What gives something value?

5.What had the Native Americans not done?

6.What invention allows for acquiring more than one needed?   How did this invention allow for this?