Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Professor Emeritus Edward F. Stuart takes you across three centuries to chart the history of modern economic thought and practice around the world.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Gorbachev’s Hello and the Soviet Goodbye
- 02: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman
- 03: How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and Other Data
- 04: British Revolution: Industry and Labor
- 05: American Capitalism: Hamilton and Jefferson
- 06: Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens
- 07: The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
- 08: Soviet Planning and 1,000 Left-Foot Shoes
- 09: Economic Consequences of European Peace
- 10: How FDR and Keynes Tried to Save Capitalism
- 11: Social Democracy in Europe
- 12: Sweden’s Mixed Economy Model
- 13: French Indicative Planning and Jean Monnet
- 14: British Labour Party and National Health
- 15: Social Welfare in Germany: Bismarck to Kohl
- 16: Soviet Bloc: Conformity and Resistance
- 17: Two Germanies: A Laboratory in Economics
- 18: The Soviet Union’s Fatal Failure to Reform
- 19: “Blinkered and Bankrupt” in Eastern Europe
- 20: From Chairman Mao to the Capitalist Roaders
- 21: After Deng, China Privatizes and Globalizes
- 22: Asian Tigers: Wealth and State Control
- 23: European Union: Success or Failure?
- 24: Both Sides Now: Experiment in Slovenia
Taught by
Edward F. Stuart, PhD
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