Directed by Ilan Ziv

Narrator, George T. Clarke ; with Thomas Piketty, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Nicholas Phillipson, Kari Polanyi Levitt, David Graeber, Abraham Rotstein

Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo- liberalism," capitalism is by far the world's dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work? CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world

Not rated

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market

Episode 2

The Wealth of Nations

Episode 3

Ricardo and Malthus

Episode 4

What If Marx Was Right?

Episode 5

Keynes vs. Hayek

Episode 6

Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor