Directed by The Great Courses

Edward Stuart

Economics is really about people and their lives, and societies have pursued the ideal system for centuries-one that can balance competing desires for freedom and security. Capitalism vs. Socialism will show you the many ways the most influential modern economic theories were developed, how they function, and how they manage to operate both together and in opposition to each other

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Gorbachev's Hello and the Soviet Goodbye

Episode 2

Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman

Episode 3

How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and Other Data

Episode 4

British Revolution: Industry and Labor

Episode 5

American Capitalism: Hamilton and Jefferson

Episode 6

Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens

Episode 7

The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin

Episode 8

Soviet Planning and 1,000 Left-Foot Shoes

Episode 9

Economic Consequences of European Peace

Episode 10

How FDR and Keynes Tried to Save Capitalism

Episode 11

Social Democracy in Europe

Episode 12

Sweden's Mixed Economy Model

Episode 13

French Indicative Planning and Jean Monnet

Episode 14

British Labour Party and National Health

Episode 15

Social Welfare in Germany: Bismarck to Kohl

Episode 16

Soviet Bloc: Conformity and Resistance

Episode 17

Two Germanies: A Laboratory in Economics

Episode 18

The Soviet Union's Fatal Failure to Reform

Episode 19

"Blinkered and Bankrupt" in Eastern Europe

Episode 20

From Chairman Mao to the Capitalist Roaders

Episode 21

After Deng, China Privatizes and Globalizes

Episode 22

Asian Tigers: Wealth and State Control

Episode 23

European Union: Success or Failure?

Episode 24

Both Sides Now: Experiment in Slovenia