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CAPITALISM vs. SOCIALISM

Edward F. Stuart

 

Subtitle: Comparing Economic Systems, The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA., 2018, 540 pgs., bibliography, illustrations.

 
 

Reviewer comments: This is an excellent general overview of the two economic systems today. It comprises 24 lectures with the transcript in 24 chapters.

 
 

Chapter 1 - Gorbachev's Hello and the Soviet Goodby

 
 

Chapter 2 - Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman

 
 

Chapter 3 - How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and Other Data

 
 

Chapter 4 -British Revolution: Industry and Labor

 
 

Chapter 5 - Ameerican Capitalism: Hamillton and Jefferson

 
 

Chapter 6 - Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin

 
 

Chapter 8 - Soveit Planning and 1,000 Left-Foot Shoes

 
 

Chapter 9 -Economic Consequences of European Peace

 
 

Chapter 10 - How FDR and Keynes Tried to Save Capitalism

 
 

Chapter 11 - Social Democray in Europe

 
 

Chapter 12 - Sweden's Mixed Economy Model

 
 

Chapter 13 - French Indicative Planning and Jean Monnet

 
 

Chapter 14 -British Labour Party and National Health

 
 

Chapter 15 - Social Welfare in Germany: Bismarck and Kohl

 
 

Chapter 16 - Soviet Bloc: Conformity and Resistance

 
 

Chapter 17 - Two Germanies: A Laboratory in Economics

 
 

Chapter 18 - The Soviet Union's Fatal Failure to Reform

 
 

Chapter 19 - "Blinkered and Bankrupt" in Eastern Europe

 
 

Chapter 20 - From Chairman Mao to the Caapitalist Roaders

 
 

Chapter 21 - After Deng, China Privatizes and Globalizes

 
 

Chapter 22 -Asian Tigers: Wealth and State Control

 
 

Chapter 23 - European Union: Success or Failure?

 
 

Chapter 24 - Both Sides now: Experimet in Slovenia

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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