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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]]
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Lecture 5 - Property, Freedom, and the Essential Job of Government
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Lecture 17 - The Case of Mister Balram Halwai
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Lecture 16 - Braudel's Bell Jar
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Lecture 4 - Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, and an Economic System Incapable of Co...
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Lecture 24 - Capitalist Enterprise and Clean Water for a Bolivian City
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Lecture 2 - Thomas Malthus and Inevitable Poverty
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Lecture 13 - The Mortgage Meltdown in Cleveland
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Lecture 12 - Accountability and Greed in Investment Banking
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Lecture 14 - The Political and Judicial Elements of American Capitalism
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Lecture 1 - Exploding Worlds and Course Introduction
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Lecture 18 - Microfinance in South India
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Lecture 19 - Plight of the Bottom Billion
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Lecture 6 - Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation
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Lecture 20 - Policy Targets for Capitalist Development
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Lecture 23 - Marrying the Devil in Texas
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Lecture 22 - Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part II
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Lecture 3 - Counting the Fingers of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
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Lecture 15 - Mass Affluence Comes to the Western World
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Lecture 21 - Guest Lecture by Paolo Zanonni, Part I
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Lecture 8 - Mortal Life Cycle of a Great Technology
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Lecture 11 - Guest Lecture by Will Goetzmann: Institutions and Incentives in Mor...
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Lecture 9 - Guest Lecture by Jim Alexander: Managing the Crooked E
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Lecture 7 - Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Bus...
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