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