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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 12B

Inequality: History of Neoliberalism

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of origins, ideas, and consequences of neoliberalism--theory that society is best organized on principles of free trade, deregulation, and privatization. Combination of political, economic, and intellectual history to construct genealogy of neoliberal thinking by attending to 18th- and 19th-century liberalism, colonialism, imperialism, rise of social democracy and military Keynesianism, and Mount Pelerin Society's Cold War resuscitation of 19th-century liberalism. Coverage of economic crisis of 1970s, restructuring of global political economy in U.S., Europe, global south--specifically debt, structural adjustment policies, environmental destruction, and military intervention. Tracing of colonial roots of global north-south divide to reveal how neoliberal policies represent longer process of accumulation by dispossession and enclosure rather than sudden radical break from Keynesian model. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.86
n = 886 · 3 terms · ± 0.018
A range
93%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.9%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
311 of 312
100% full
 fills TR 12:30pm-1:45pm Kelley, R.D.
3.86n=886 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 34121F
  • 28723F
Enrolment by term: 21F 341, 23F 287
Peak 341 Most recent 287 in 23F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 96 · 10.3%
  • A 581 · 62.5%
  • A- 146 · 15.7%
  • B+ 34 · 3.7%
  • B 10 · 1.1%
  • B- 4 · 0.4%
  • C+ 4 · 0.4%
  • C 1 · 0.1%
  • C- 2 · 0.2%
  • D+ 2 · 0.2%
  • F 6 · 0.6%
  • P 29 · 3.1%
  • I 14 · 1.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
KELLEY, ROBIN D G 3.86 3.86 886 3 93%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term