The Age of Uncertainty(1977)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1977-01-10
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 15
A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
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Season 1
Episodes: 15E01
The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
Air Date: 1977-01-10
John Kenneth Galbraith tells the story of the men who laid the foundations of economics, including Adam Smith, David ...
E02
The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
Air Date: 1977-01-17
Professor Galbraith looks at the ideas that sustained the rich in the 19th century and how they still affect our atti...
E03
The Dissent of Karl Marx
Air Date: 1977-01-24
JK Galbraith investigates the impact of Karl Marx on our economic interpretation of society. The life and work of Mar...
E04
The Colonial Idea
Air Date: 1977-01-31
Professor Galbraith traces the colonial adventure, from the Crusades to the present, from the fall of Acre to the fal...
E05
Lenin and the Great Ungluing
Air Date: 1977-02-07
JK Galbraith examines WWI as an instrument in changing the old social order, and especially Lenin, who spent most of ...
E06
The Rise and Fall of Money
Air Date: 1977-02-14
From the elegant banks of 17th-century Amsterdam to the dark days of the Great Depression, Prof Galbraith traces the ...
E07
The Mandarin Revolution
Air Date: 1977-02-21
JK Galbraith looks at the influence of John Maynard Keynes, who drew the blueprint for the postwar economic boom, and...
E08
The Fatal Competition
Air Date: 1977-02-28
JK Galbraith visits the ruins of postwar Berlin, the corridors of power in the Pentagon and 'the world's largest used...
E09
The Big Corporation
Air Date: 1977-03-07
JK Galbraith explores the modern large corporation - 'the most relentless force for change in modern economic life'.
E10
Land and the People
Air Date: 1977-03-14
In Mexico and the Punjab, on the cotton fields of the old South and the farm where he was born, Prof Galbraith confro...
E11
The Metropolis
Air Date: 1977-03-21
'The city is the focus of the problems of modern society - its uncertainty, crisis, hope, despair.' Prof Galbraith l...
E12
Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
Air Date: 1977-03-28
Prof JK Galbraith sets out on a physical and figurative journey to recapture his experience of democracy, comparing p...
E13
Weekend in Vermont - Part 1
Air Date: 1977-04-02
Over a relaxed weekend, a distinguished international gathering at John Kenneth Galbraith's Vermont farm offer their ...
E14
Weekend in Vermont - Part 2
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E15
Weekend in Vermont - Part 3
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
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