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?
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Air Date: 2014-10-14
Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed, it predates Smi...
Air Date: 2014-10-14
Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic...
Air Date: 2014-10-21
The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malt...
Air Date: 2014-10-21
Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works -...
Air Date: 2014-10-28
The ideological divide between the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek has dominated economics fo...
Air Date: 2014-10-28
An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodi...