TTC - The Great Courses - Capitalism vs. Socialism Comparing Economic Systems [Course No. 5006]

[b]TTC - The Great Courses - Capitalism vs. Socialism Comparing Economic Systems [Course No. 5006]

Professor Edward F. Stuart, Ph.D.
Northeastern Illinois University [

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All of the tradeoffs in competing economic systems—capitalism, socialism, and communism—are controversial. These systems and ideologies have undeniably shaped the way people view both the world today and modern history. But where does capitalism begin and socialism end? In short, it’s about choice and compromise.

1.Gorbachev's Hello and the Soviet Goodbye
2. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman
3. How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and other Data
4. British Revolution - Industry and Labor
5. American Capitalism - Hamilton and Jefferson
6. Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens
7. The Bolsheviks - Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
8. Soviet Planning and 1000 Left Foot Shoes
9. 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