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Perhaps no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade's crises continue to remind us just how much capitalism changes, even as its basic features—wage labor, financial markets, private property, entrepreneurs—endure. While capitalism has a global history, the United States plays a special role in that story. This course will help yo ...
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The past and the future of capitalism.
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We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globaliz…
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleas…
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