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Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform

Douglas W. Rae · Yale University

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In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit our more specific objectives--for the natural environment, public health, alleviation of poverty, and development of human potential in every child. Each book we read will be explicitly or implicitly an argument about good and bad consequences of capitalism.

Lectures

  1. Exploding Worlds and Course Introduction Lecture 1 · Audio
  2. Thomas Malthus and Inevitable Poverty Lecture 2 · Audio
  3. Counting the Fingers of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Lecture 3 · Audio
  4. Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, and an Economic System Incapable of Coming to Rest Lecture 4 · Audio
  5. Property, Freedom, and the Essential Job of Government Lecture 5 · Audio
  6. Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation Lecture 6 · Audio
  7. Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Business of It? Lecture 7 · Audio
  8. Mortal Life Cycle of a Great Technology Lecture 8 · Audio
  9. Guest Lecture by Jim Alexander: Managing the Crooked E Lecture 9 · Audio
  10. Guest Lecture by Richard Medley: Entrepreneurship in Business Information Lecture 10 · YouTube
  11. Guest Lecture by Will Goetzmann: Institutions and Incentives in Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities Lecture 11 · Audio
  12. Accountability and Greed in Investment Banking Lecture 12 · Audio
  13. The Mortgage Meltdown in Cleveland Lecture 13 · Audio
  14. The Political and Judicial Elements of American Capitalism Lecture 14 · Audio
  15. Mass Affluence Comes to the Western World Lecture 15 · Audio
  16. Braudel's Bell Jar Lecture 16 · Audio
  17. The Case of Mister Balram Halwai Lecture 17 · Audio
  18. Microfinance in South India Lecture 18 · Audio
  19. Plight of the Bottom Billion Lecture 19 · Audio
  20. Policy Targets for Capitalist Development Lecture 20 · Audio
  21. Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part I Lecture 21 · Audio
  22. Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part II Lecture 22 · Audio
  23. Marrying the Devil in Texas Lecture 23 · Audio
  24. Capitalist Enterprise and Clean Water for a Bolivian City Lecture 24 · Audio

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Institution
Yale University
Department
Political Science
Teacher
Douglas W. Rae
Term
Fall 2009
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
Open Yale Courses
Licence
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