Professor Emeritus Edward F. Stuart takes you across three centuries to chart the history of modern economic thought and practice around the world.
Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
Overview
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
