Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems

Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems « Series from 2018

Series from 2018

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Economics is really about people and their lives, and societies have pursued the ideal system for centuries—one that can balance competing desires for freedom and security.

Capitalism vs.

Socialism will show you the many ways the most influential modern economic theories were developed, how they function, and how they manage to operate both together and in opposition to each other.

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Gorbachev’s Hello and the Soviet Goodbye

Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman

How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and Other Data

British Revolution: Industry and Labor

American Capitalism: Hamilton and Jefferson

Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens

The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin

Soviet Planning and 1,000 Left-Foot Shoes

Economic Consequences of European Peace

How FDR and Keynes Tried to Save Capitalism

Social Democracy in Europe

Sweden’s Mixed Economy Model

French Indicative Planning and Jean Monnet

British Labour Party and National Health

Social Welfare in Germany: Bismarck to Kohl

Soviet Bloc: Conformity and Resistance

Two Germanies: A Laboratory in Economics

The Soviet Union’s Fatal Failure to Reform

“Blinkered and Bankrupt” in Eastern Europe

From Chairman Mao to the Capitalist Roaders

After Deng, China Privatizes and Globalizes

Asian Tigers: Wealth and State Control

European Union: Success or Failure?

Both Sides Now: Experiment in Slovenia