Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform

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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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