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Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems

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Professor Emeritus Edward F. Stuart takes you across three centuries to chart the history of modern economic thought and practice around the world.

Syllabus

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
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Edward F. Stuart, PhD

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