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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails

May 18, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
A New Child, a New Beginning
02:32 • 3min
3
Why Is It So Hard to Understand the Economy?
05:51 • 2min
4
The Economy Is a New Idea
07:31 • 2min
5
Commodification - The Evolution of Capitalism
09:58 • 4min
6
The Power of Mathematics
13:32 • 2min
7
Is There No Such Thing as Time?
15:56 • 2min
8
The End of Democracy
17:54 • 3min
9
How Did These Revolutions Happen?
20:51 • 3min
10
The Evolution of Agriculture
23:35 • 3min
11
Agricultura Revolution in Africa
26:12 • 3min
12
Coinage
28:58 • 2min
13
The Alienated Power of Humanity
31:28 • 3min
14
The First Metal Coins Did Not Exist
34:19 • 4min
15
How Did the Subbry Market Exist in the Nineties?
38:03 • 2min
16
What Is the New Deal?
40:13 • 2min
17
What Is a Bonnus?
41:50 • 5min
18
What Do We Do? We Ban the Sale of These Boxes
47:01 • 2min
19
The Price of Potatoes, Is the Price of the Potato Market
48:43 • 4min
20
The Value of Donating in Universities
52:30 • 6min
21
Economist or Sociologist?
58:00 • 5min
22
What Happened to Joe Stiglis in 1998?
01:02:40 • 3min
23
What Would a 21 Year Oldowo Say to Am Jani?
01:05:30 • 2min
24
Three Questions About China and the Great Recession
01:07:02 • 4min
25
The West Owes a Debt of Gratitude to China
01:10:39 • 3min
26
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles
01:13:44 • 2min