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American Capitalism: A History — 151 episodes
16.1. The Great Depression
16.2. The Depression: Causes and Responses
16.3. The New Deal and Capitalism in Crisis
16.4. New Deal Finance: Housing
16.5. The New Deal and John Maynard Keynes
16.6. AAA, Sharecropping, and Consumption
16.7. Industrial Unionism: CIO, Flint Strike of 1936 and the UAW
17.1. Industrial Army
17.2. Was This Economy Coercive?
17.3. Was It Worth It?
17.4. Defense Plant Corporation
17.5. Origins of Strategic Bombing
17.6. Assessing the Outcomes of Strategic Bombing
17.7. The Rise of Corporate Planning and Managerial Science
18.1. Superpower, Marshall Plan Bretton Woods
18.2. Postwar Strike Wave and Anti-Communism
18.3. Eisenhower and the Military-industrial Complex
18.4. Roots of American Popular Culture
18.5. Selling American Culture
19.1. The Keynsian Consensus
19.2. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Limits of Keynesianisms
19.3. The Rise of the Conglomerate
19.4. ...and Their Fall
19.5. Suburban Consumption, Ghetto Consumption
19.6. The Modern Research University
19.7. What the Research University Suggests About Capitalism
20.1. Civil Rights and Consumption
20.2. Container Ships and the Vietnam War
20.3. IBM and the Transistor
20.4. Toyota and the Automobile
20.5. The Oil Economy
20.6. The End of Cheap Energy
21.1. The Discount Store: Kmart
21.2. The Discount Store: Walmart
21.3. The Erosion of Union Strength
21.4. The End of Union Power
21.5. Return of Finance: Wall Street
22.1. Stagflation
22.2. What Causes Stagflation?
22.3. The Political Consequences: A New Paradigm
22.4. Free Market Ideas Out of and In Power
22.5. Neoliberal Ideas
22.6. Rising Inequality and Rising Assets
22.7. Luxury Goods
23.1. Instability as Opportunity
23.2. Precariat
23.3. The Lean Corporation
23.4. Neoliberal Panics
23.5. Panic of 2008
Closing Words
Opening Words
1.1. The Malthusian World
1.2. What do we mean by capitalism?
1.3. Truck and Barter
1.4. Long Distance Trade: Early Civilizations
1.5. Long Distance Trade: Legacies of the Crusades
2.1. World System: Trade and Ships
2.2. Discovering accounting
2.3. Money
2.4. Bills of Exchange
2.5. Virgin Soil and European Immigrants
3.1. Plantation Complex, the Levant, Sao Tome
3.2. The Virginia Company
3.3. Brazil and Barbados
3.4. Empire + State = War
3.5. The Industrious Revolution I
3.6. The Industrious Revolution II
4.1. Not Every Revolution Has A Party
4.2. Tea as a Social Practice
4.3. Tea as a Political Practice
4.4. Tea as Politics
4.5. Tea as Revolution
4.6. John Adams Gets No Tea
4.7. Charlestown Gets Serious
5.1. The Constitution as an Economic Document
5.2. Compromises in the Constitution
5.3. Alexander Hamilton and the Problem of Debt
5.4. Creating a State Financial Elites Will Support
5.5. Creating Entrepreneurial Financial Desires
5.6. The Great Yazoo Land Fraud
5.7. Stealing Cotton Machines
6.1. The End of the First System of Slavery
6.2. The Haitian Revolution and the End of the Slave Trade
6.3. Baring Brothers: Life in the Middle
6.4. The Baring Brothers in the U.S. Economy
6.5. Napoleon Fails and the U.S. Benefits
6.6. Francis Cabot Lowell and the War of 1812
6.7. A War That Changed Nothing?
6.8. Henry Clay's American System
7.1. Charles Ball and the Experience of Slavery
7.2. Incentives and Slavery
7.3. New Systems of Organizing Labor
7.4. Cotton as an Engine of Growth
7.5. The Domestic Slave Trade
7.6. Slavery in the Rest of the Americas
7.7. Why Didn't Slaves Revolt?
7.8. Why Did Nonslaveholding Whites Support Slavery?
8.1. The Industrial Revolution
8.2. Women, morality, and factory work
8.3. The Implications of Wage Labor
8.4. Shoes: Making Goods in New Ways
8.5. Early labor unions and strikes
9.1. American System: Canals, bonds, and the state
9.2. Deregulation and the 1830s
9.3. Natural History of Panics
9.4. Panic of 1837
9.5. The Birth of the Railroad Corporation
9.6. Wall Street and New York Finance
10.1. Clerks, Cash, and the City
10.2. Clerks and the Sporting Life
10.3. Macy's Stumbles Upon Success
10.4. Macy's Becomes a Department Store
10.5. Working at Macy's
10.6. Brooks Brothers
10.7. The Murder of Helen Jewett
10.8. Seamstresses and Prostitutes
11.1. Railroads and Western Development: Shifting regional investments
11.2. Northern and Southern Capitalism in the 1850s
11.3. The American Civil War
11.4. Economic Effects of the Civil War
11.5. Emancipation Policy
11.6. Emancipation Outcomes
12.1. The Second Industrial Revolution
12.2. The Great Strike of 1877: Railroads and Resistance
12.3. Knights of Labor and the limits of producerist organizing
12.4. The Growth of Large Corporations
12.5. Financing Industrial Growth
12.6. Montgomery Ward: Bringing Goods to the Countryside
12.7. Class and Cultural Difference: Wealth and Power
12.8. Class and Cultural Difference: Work as Culture
13.1. American Federation of Labor
13.2. Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
13.3. Henry Frick and the Homestead Strike
13.4. Carnegie Steel Becomes U.S. Steel
13.5. Populism
14.1. Sharecropping
14.2. New South Capitalism: Textiles, Railroads
14.3. Why Did the South Remain Poor?
14.4. Consumption and Everyday White Supremacy
14.5. Consumption and Undermining White Supremacy
14.6. Empire and the Expansion of U.S. Power
14.7. American Empire
14.8. The IWWW and the 'Bread and Roses' Strike
14.9. The Great Steel Strike
15.1. Ford
15.2. GM
15.3. Mass Distribution: A&P and Chain Stores
15.4. Resistance to Chain Stores
15.5. Ford and the Uses of Power
15.6. Ford, Americanization, Union Breaking
15.7. Ford, GM, and Finance