PLSC 270 - Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform

PLSC 270 - Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform

23 Videos · Jan 10, 2009

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In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit our more specific objectives – for the natural environment, public health, alleviation of poverty, and development of human potential in every child. Each book we read will be explicitly or implicitly an argument about good and bad consequences of capitalism.

Course Homepage: [[http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/capitalism-success-crisis-and-reform]]

Course features at Open Yale courses page: *Syllabus *Class Sessions *Downloads *Survey

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Lecture 5 - Property, Freedom, and the Essential Job of Government

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 17 - The Case of Mister Balram Halwai

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 16 - Braudel's Bell Jar

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 4 - Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, and an Economic System Incapable of Co...

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 24 - Capitalist Enterprise and Clean Water for a Bolivian City

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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2362 views

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Lecture 2 - Thomas Malthus and Inevitable Poverty

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 13 - The Mortgage Meltdown in Cleveland

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 12 - Accountability and Greed in Investment Banking

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 14 - The Political and Judicial Elements of American Capitalism

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 1 - Exploding Worlds and Course Introduction

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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6218 views

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Lecture 18 - Microfinance in South India

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 19 - Plight of the Bottom Billion

Paul Collier,

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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2705 views

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Lecture 6 - Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 20 - Policy Targets for Capitalist Development

Chris Getman,

Jonathan Ingham,

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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2462 views

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Lecture 23 - Marrying the Devil in Texas

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 22 - Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part II

Paolo Zanonni

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 3 - Counting the Fingers of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 15 - Mass Affluence Comes to the Western World

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 21 - Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part I

Paolo Zanonni

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 8 - Mortal Life Cycle of a Great Technology

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 11 - Guest Lecture by Will Goetzmann: Institutions and Incentives in Mor...

Will Goetzmann

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 9 - Guest Lecture by Jim Alexander: Managing the Crooked E

Jim Alexander

Jul 31, 2012

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Lecture 7 - Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Bus...

Sharon Oster,

Douglas W. Rae

Jul 31, 2012

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2860 views