Global History of Capitalism
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Since the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been an explosion of interest in the history of capitalism. Some narratives focus on enormous waste, environmental destruction, overpowered corporations, exploitation of workers, or outrageous inequality. Others are more positive, telling a story about unparalleled prosperity, longer life expectancies, integration of markets, connectivity among peoples, and poverty alleviation.In this course, we emphasize the complexity of capitalism over such neat narratives. By looking at capitalism through a global lens, we investigate multiple types of explanations and impacts on local, national, regional and global levels. We also examine a range of different topics deeply connected to the evolution of capitalism; including labor relations, migration, commodities, consumption, finance, war, imperialism, development, energy, and the environment.
Some of the questions we will discuss in this course are:
- How is capitalism related to globalization?
- What are the important institutions of global capitalism?
- How can we understand consumption and capitalism by following the production, supply and demand chains of commodities like rubber, sugar or petroleum?
- What is the role of the state in the development of capitalism, and is there a relationship between capitalism and empire?
- Is global capitalism environmentally sustainable?
- Why did some countries industrialize, while others didn’t?
- Why do labor markets develop?
- Is there an inherent tension between capitalism and democracy?
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| Rating | 4.2★ based on 5 ratings |
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| Length | 6 weeks |
| Effort | 3 - 5 hours per week |
| Starts | Jan 15 (328 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $0 |
| From | Princeton University, PrincetonX via edX |
| Instructors | Teal Arcadi, Caitlin Harvey, Rob Konkel, Felice Physioc, Miles Macallister, Niharika Yadav |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business Humanities |
| Tags | Economics & Finance Humanities History |
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accessible despite my limited
The instructors really made the content accessible despite my limited background in economic history, and even with short readings were able to start a lot of thought-provoking conversations.
felt lost when reading
As a beginner, I frequently felt lost when reading the articles, but the videos helped to some degree, and the graded material was indeed at the basic level; yet there was room, in forum discussions, for far more in-depth exploration of topics.
short readings were able
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This was the only course I have ever quit after the fourth unit because is was a total and complete waste of time.
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The inability of the system to erase poverty, to be sustainable by not harming earth's ecosystem and why it is a better alternative to communism, fascism or zoocialism not to mention : slavery, serfdom or mercantilism very informative, and important, course - capitalism has shaped the world we live in.
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A bunch of smug students mouthing obscure quotes from their even more obscure text book authors Wonderful class!
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| Rating | 4.2★ based on 5 ratings |
|---|---|
| Length | 6 weeks |
| Effort | 3 - 5 hours per week |
| Starts | Jan 15 (328 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $0 |
| From | Princeton University, PrincetonX via edX |
| Instructors | Teal Arcadi, Caitlin Harvey, Rob Konkel, Felice Physioc, Miles Macallister, Niharika Yadav |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business Humanities |
| Tags | Economics & Finance Humanities History |
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