For all three regular readers of this blog (and yes, I’m counting myself), I’ve decided to revive my Olde Tyme classroom haiku tradition. I used to offer this for extra credit to my students in the big “Organizational Sociology” and “Money and Society” lecture courses I taught at Brown University. I can no longer offer extra credit as an incentive for participation, but I hope my esteem will be a decent substitute.
To get things started, I offer my own modest entry, which attempts to boil the current economic crisis into 17 syllables:
No credit–no loans.
No loans means no capital.
No capitalism.