The Story of Your Enslavement

56:16

Paul Saffo looks at the development of the US economy through the 20th and into the 21st century. What are the trends that have shaped the economy? How are innovations in technology and communications making the 21st century an entirely different landscape for producers and consumers?

S1E6 • Curiosity Retreats: 2015 Lectures • 2015 • Economics

59:42

The millionaires' paradise was destroyed by the crash of 1929, which plunged the country into the Great Depression and mass unemployment. Enraged by greed and tax evasion, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, reelected in 1936, advocated controlled capitalism.

S1E2 • American Capitalism – The Cult of Wealth • 2023 • Economics

57:25

At the end of the 19th century, a club of millionaires — John D. Rockefeller and his oil monopoly, steel king and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and banker J. P. Morgan, who financed the Industrial Revolution from Wall Street — took over the United States, where immigrants provided a labor force that was ruthlessly exploited.

S1E1 • American Capitalism – The Cult of Wealth • 2023 • Economics

10:05

What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.

In a Nutshell • 2017 • Economics

18:37

Hillary Clinton and Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss the cultural norms at the center of the worldwide gender pay gap, including the "motherhood penalty"

S1E18 • Explained • 2018 • Economics

53:28

This is the story of how the world's leading economy sinks into the Great Depression, with repercussions that allow Hitler to rise to power. Eventually, President Franklin D. Roosevelt brings hope and optimism back into the hearts of the US population.

S1E2 • 1929 • 2009 • Economics