AMHP 27A06 - The History of American Capitalism

This lecture course offers a broad overview of American capitalism from colonial times up to the present. It introduces students to the economic transformation of America from a rural colonial outpost of the British Empire to the largest industrially developed economic power in the world. The course will consider the political, social, cultural, geographical, legal, moral, environmental, and technological dimensions of economic life – all together attempting to provide a total picture of the historical characteristics and dynamics of American capitalism. No prior course work in economics is either required or assumed.