Thinking about capitalism

Part 2, Lecture 13: Hegel on capitalism and individuality

Lecture 14: Hamilton, List, and the case for protection

Lecture 15: De Tocqueville on capitalism in America

Lecture 16: Marx and Engels-the Communist Manifesto

Lecture 17: Marx's Capital and the degradation of work

Lecture 18: Matthew Arnold on capitalism and culture

Lecture 19: Individual and community-Tönnies vs. Simmel

Lecture 20: German debate over rationalization

Lecture 21: Cultural sources of capitalism-Max Weber

Lecture 22: Schumpeter on innovation and resentment

Lecture 23: Lenin's critique-Imperialism and war

Lecture 24: Fascists on capitalism-Freyer and Schmitt.

Part 3, Lecture 25: Mises and Hayek on irrational socialism

Lecture 26: Schumpeter on capitalism's self-destruction

Lecture 27: Rise of welfare-state capitalism

Lecture 28: Pluralism as limit to social justice-Hayek

Lecture 29: Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique

Lecture 30: Contradictions of postindustrial society

Lecture 31: Family under capitalism

Lecture 32: Tensions with democracy-Buchanan and Olson

Lecture 33: End of communism, new era of globalization

Lecture 34: Capitalism and nationalism-Ernest Gellner

Lecture 35: Varieties of capitalism

Lecture 36: Intrinsic tensions in capitalism.

Disc 1. Why think about capitalism

Lecture 2: Greek and Christian traditions

Lecture 3: Hobbes's challenge to the traditions

Lecture 4: Dutch commerce and national power

Lecture 5: Capitalism and toleration-Voltaire

Lecture 6: Abundance or equality-Voltaire vs. Rousseau.

Disc 2. Seeing the invisible hand-Adam Smith

Smith on merchants, politicians, workers

Smith on the problems of commercial society

Smith on moral and immoral capitalism

Conservatism and advanced capitalism-Burke

Conservatism and periphery capitalism-Moser.

Disc 3. Hegel on capitalism and individuality

Hamilton, List, and the case for protection

De Tocqueville on capitalism in America

Marx and Engels-the Communist Manifesto

Marx's Capital and the degradation of work

Matthew Arnold on capitalism and culture

Disc 4. Lecture 19: Individual and community, Tönnies vs. Simmel

German debate over rationalization

Cultural sources of capitalism, Max Weber

Schumpeter on innovation and resentment

Lenin's critique, Imperialism and war

Fascists on capitalism, Freyer and Schmitt.