Now we focus on the growth of American finance, as new forms of investment fueled economic growth and set the United States up for a series of panics.

9.4. Panic of 1837

We examine the last 40 years of the U.S. economy, as a more flexible business and labor system emerges with vastly increasing inequality.

23.2. Precariat

23.4. Neoliberal Panics

Closing Words

23.1. Instability as Opportunity

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.

22.7. Luxury Goods

23.5. Panic of 2008

23.3. The Lean Corporation

22.4. Free Market Ideas Out of and In Power

22.6. Rising Inequality and Rising Assets

Im very interested in this topic and the professors present it well but the format of the class is too annoying. The clips are too short. I don&#39;t need an intro song every 3 minutes. Please just give me 45 min to one hour lectures like a normal course.

3 to 5 minute videos are annoying

fascinating history of capitalism.  could uses longer sections than ~10 min, but still 5 star worthy

Perfect for anyone interested in business and history

American Capitalism: A History

Reconstruction marked a rebuilding of the nation and raised crucial questions about the future relationships of labor and capital.

12.2. The Great Strike of 1877: Railroads and Resistance

12.3. Knights of Labor and the limits of producerist organizing

We will take a closer look at a world on the verge of capitalist expansion. We will look at the existing trade networks that knit the world together as never before. We will investigate key financial innovations such as double entry bookkeeping and bills of exchange that made economic growth easier and more profitable.

2.1. World System: Trade and Ships

Beginning with the emergence of a new class of male clerks employed in the clothing industries of New York City, we look at the implications of a commercial world in which seemingly everything was for sale, and an urban world in which people lived outside of the social obligations that had previously been so powerful.

10.2. Clerks and the Sporting Life

2.5. Virgin Soil and European Immigrants

12.6. Montgomery Ward: Bringing Goods to the Countryside

The fraying of the Keynesian consensus and the rise of cheap goods and cheaper labor.

21.5. Return of Finance: Wall Street

22.1. Stagflation

22.2. What Causes Stagflation?

22.3. The Political Consequences: A New Paradigm

22.5. Neoliberal Ideas

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.

20.5. The Oil Economy

21.1. The Discount Store: Kmart

21.2. The Discount Store: Walmart

21.3. The Erosion of Union Strength

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