Meeting January 18th: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and Its Implications for Democracy, Dictatorship and Elections

This Wednesday Anil will give a presentation on Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and Its Implications for Democracy, Dictatorship and Elections.

Arrows Paradox, states that, when voters have three or more distinct alternatives (options), no voting system can convert the ranked preferences of individuals into a community-wide (complete and transitive) ranking while also meeting a specific set of criteria. These criteria are called unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives. The theorem is named after economist Kenneth Arrow, who demonstrated the theorem in his Ph.D. thesis and popularized it in his 1951 book Social Choice and Individual Values.

Meet at 7pm in the Frances Hoopes Seminar Room of the Marriott Library.

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Meeting January 11th: African-American Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

This Wednesday we will have a presentation on the civil rights movement.
Meet at 7pm in room 1715 of the Marriott Library.

Weekly Meeting Dec. 28th: Critique of Madisonian Democracy

This Wednesday at 7pm Jake will present his Critique of Madisonian Democracy. The Library is still unavailable since it is winter break, so we are meeting at the UofU's Union building of the second floor to the right of the main desk (east side of building).

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/125596080886521/
UofU campus map (type in "Union"): http://www.map.utah.edu/
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Meeting Dec. 21st: Socialism and Anarchism: Different Philosophies with Common Goals

This Wednesday the Freedom Socialist Managing Editor Andrea Bauer, will discuss Socialism and Anarchism over Skype. Both socialism and anarchism originated around the early 1800s in response to the terrible conditions of workers, small craftspeople, and peasants with the rise of capitalism, which threw people off the land and forced them into the cities to work brutal hours in health-destroying factories. In the second half of the 1800s, socialist and anarchist ideas began to take more definite shape and to diverge from one another. read more @ http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node%2F1776

We will be meeting in a new location since the Library will be unavailable over winter break.
Meet at 7pm in the Union building (200 Central Campus Dr. , SLC) in the Common Room which is on the 2nd floor and to the right of the main information desk.
https://www.facebook.com/events/247881465275854/

UofU map: http://www.map.utah.edu/
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Meeting Dec. 7th: The Revolution Betrayed

This Wednesday we will have a presentation on Trotsky's book The Revolution Betrayed followed by group discussion.  Meet at the University of Utah Marriott Library in the Frances Hoopes Seminar room at 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/events/192821010806859/

Meeting Nov 30th: Opinions on Occupy

This Wednesday we will be having short presentations from different people on the Occupy movement followed by group discussion.  Meet at the University of Utah Marriott Library in the Frances Hoopes Seminar room at 7pm.

Meeting Nov. 23rd: Analysis of Occupy

This Wednesday Greg will be presenting his analysis of the Occupy movement. The meeting has changed to Coffee Break at 7:00pm because the Marriott Library will close early.
https://www.facebook.com/events/#!/events/167753379987992/