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American Capitalism: A History
by Cornell University
Perhaps no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade's crises continue to remind us just how much capitalism changes, even as its basic features—wage labor, financial markets, private property, entrepreneurs—endure. While capitalism has a global history, the United States plays a special role in that story. This course will help you to understand how the United States became the world's leading economic power, revealing essential lessons about what has been and what will be possible in capitalism's on-going revolution. Register for the free course at https://www.edx.org/course/cornellx/cornellx-hist1514x-american-capitalism-1307
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16.1. The Great Depression
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.2. The Depression: Causes and Responses
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.3. The New Deal and Capitalism in Crisis
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.4. New Deal Finance: Housing
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.5. The New Deal and John Maynard Keynes
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.6. AAA, Sharecropping, and Consumption
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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16.7. Industrial Unionism: CIO, Flint Strike of 1936 and the UAW
The Great Depression plunged the United States, and much of the world, into crisis. As the depression deepened, people looked to President Roosevelt for answers. Roosevelt pledged a "New Deal" for the American people, but despite having one name, the New Deal did not have a coherent economic philosophy. The New Deal experimented with policy, unleashing a torrent of legislation directed at almost all areas of the economy.
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17.1. Industrial Army
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.2. Was This Economy Coercive?
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.3. Was It Worth It?
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.4. Defense Plant Corporation
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.5. Origins of Strategic Bombing
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.6. Assessing the Outcomes of Strategic Bombing
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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17.7. The Rise of Corporate Planning and Managerial Science
We will look at the industrial war the United States won, examining the public/private partnership that was at the root of the effort.
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18.1. Superpower, Marshall Plan Bretton Woods
We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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18.2. Postwar Strike Wave and Anti-Communism
We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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18.3. Eisenhower and the Military-industrial Complex
We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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18.4. Roots of American Popular Culture
We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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18.5. Selling American Culture
We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a military-industrial complex.
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19.1. The Keynsian Consensus
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.2. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Limits of Keynesianisms
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.3. The Rise of the Conglomerate
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.4. ...and Their Fall
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.5. Suburban Consumption, Ghetto Consumption
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.6. The Modern Research University
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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19.7. What the Research University Suggests About Capitalism
We will look at some of the elements of this consensus, at how the desire for stability influences corporate policy, and some of the consequences of the Keynesian consensus.
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20.1. Civil Rights and Consumption
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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20.2. Container Ships and the Vietnam War
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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20.3. IBM and the Transistor
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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20.4. Toyota and the Automobile
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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20.5. The Oil Economy
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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20.6. The End of Cheap Energy
We take a look at some of the postwar economic changes, beginning with a civil rights revolution that used consumption as the opening wedge in an effort to end white supremacy. We then consider a revolution in transportation and how the United States ill-fated war in Vietnam helped insure its success. Then we will consider the increasingly globalized nature of the economy.
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21.1. The Discount Store: Kmart
The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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21.2. The Discount Store: Walmart
The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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21.3. The Erosion of Union Strength
The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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21.4. The End of Union Power
The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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21.5. Return of Finance: Wall Street
The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.
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22.1. Stagflation
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.2. What Causes Stagflation?
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.3. The Political Consequences: A New Paradigm
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.4. Free Market Ideas Out of and In Power
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.5. Neoliberal Ideas
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.6. Rising Inequality and Rising Assets
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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22.7. Luxury Goods
We will look at the economic problems of the 1970s and how they helped revive an old strain of economic thinking. Called neo-liberal for its roots in the liberal economic views of Adam Smith, it emphasized the power and the justice of market outcomes.
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23.1. Instability as Opportunity
We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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23.2. Precariat
We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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23.3. The Lean Corporation
We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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23.4. Neoliberal Panics
We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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23.5. Panic of 2008
We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.
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Closing Words
The past and the future of capitalism.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Perhaps no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade's crises continue to remind us just how much capitalism changes, even as its basic features—wage labor, financial markets, private property, entrepreneurs—endure. While capitalism has a global history, the United States plays a special role in that story. This course will help you to understand how the United States became the world's leading economic power, revealing essential lessons about what has been and what will be possible in capitalism's on-going revolution. Register for the free course at https://www.edx.org/course/cornellx/cornellx-hist1514x-american-capitalism-1307
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