DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Thinking about capitalism / Professor Jerry Z. Muller.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, [2008]

©2008

6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF.

Course is designed to help the viewer think about capitalism, not only as an economic system, but in terms of its moral, political and cultural effects.

Great courses. Philosophy & intelllectual history

Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.

Capitalism -- History.

Economics -- History.

Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Muller, Jerry Z., 1954- author, speaker.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Course no. 5665.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 36 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor Jerry Z. Muller, Catholic University of America.

DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

Why think about capitalism -- Greek and Christian traditions -- Hobbes's challenge to the traditions -- Dutch commerce and national power -- Capitalism and toleration: Voltaire -- Abundance or equality: Voltaire vs. Rousseau -- Seeing the invisible hand: Adam Smith -- Smith on merchants, politicians, workers -- Smith on the problems of commercial society -- Smith on moral and immoral capitalism -- Conservatism and advanced capitalism: Burke -- Conservatism and periphery capitalism: Moser -- Hegel on capitalism and individuality -- Hamilton, List, and the case for protection -- De Tocqueville on capitalism in America -- Marx and Engels-the Communist Manifesto -- Marx's Capital and the degradation of work -- Matthew Arnold on capitalism and culture -- Individual and community:Tönnies vs. Simmel -- German debate over rationalization -- Cultural sources of capitalism: Max Weber -- Schumpeter on innovation and resentment -- Lenin's critique: Imperialism and war -- Fascists on capitalism: Freyer and Schmitt -- Mises and Hayek on irrational socialism -- Schumpeter on capitalism's self-destruction -- Rise of welfare-state capitalism -- Pluralism as limit to social justice-Hayek -- Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique -- Contradictions of postindustrial society -- Family under capitalism -- Tensions with democracy: Buchanan and Olson -- End of communism, new era of globalization -- Capitalism and nationalism: Ernest Gellner -- Varieties of capitalism -- Intrinsic tensions in capitalism.

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