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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
  • By This Professor

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Edward F. Stuart, PhD

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