Thinking About Capitalism

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Call Number: BOCD 330.9 Mu Oversize
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"36 lectures/30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
"Course no. 5665."
Lecture 1. Why think about capitalism -- Lecture 2. Greek and Christian traditions -- Lecture 3. Hobbes's challenge to the traditions -- Lecture 4. Dutch commerce and national power -- Lecture 5. Capitalism and toleration--Voltaire -- Lecture 6. Abundance or equality--Voltaire vs. Rousseau -- Lecture 7. Seeing the invisible hand--Adam Smith -- Lecture 8. Smith on merchants, politicians, workers -- Lecture 9. Smith on the problems of commercial society -- Lecture 10. Smith on moral and immoral capitalism -- Lecture 11. Conservatism and advanced capitalism--Burke -- Lecture 12. Conservatism and periphery capitalism--Möser.
Lecture 13. Hegel on capitalism and individuality -- Lecture 14. Hamiliton, List, and the case for protection -- Lecture 15. De Tocqueville on capitalism in America -- Lecture 16. Marx and Engels--the Communist Manifesto -- Lecture 17. Marx's Capital and the degradation of work -- Lecture 18. Matthew Arnold on capitalism and culture -- Lecture 19. Individual and community--Tönnies vs. Simmel -- Lecture 20. German debate over rationalization -- Lecture 21. Cultural sources of capitalism--Max Weber -- Lecture 22. Schumpeter on innovation and resentment -- Lecture 23. Lenin's critique--Imperialism and war -- Lecture 24. Fascists on capitalism--Freyer and Schmitt.
Lecture 25. Mises and Hayek on irrational socialism -- Lecture 26. Schumpeter on capitalism's self-destruction -- Lecture 27. Rise of welfare--state capitalism -- Lecture 28. Pluralism as limit to social justice--Hayek -- Lecture 29. Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique -- Lecture 30. Contradictions of postindustrial society -- Lecture 31. Family under capitalism -- Lecture 32. Tensions with democracy--Buchanan and Olson -- Lecture 33. End of communism, new era of globalization -- Lecture 34. Capitalism and nationalism--Ernest Gellner -- Lecture 35. Varieties of capitalism -- Lecture 36. Intrinsic tensions in capitalism.
Lectures delivered by Jerry Z. Muller, Catholic University of America.

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