Capitalism in the Age of Revolution

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
1	Introduction
2	Perspectives on Capitalism and Financial Crisis
3	The Mississippi Bubble Screening cwhite2000. “The Ascent of Money 2008 Episode 3 Blowing Bubbles.” August 2, 2014. YouTube.
4	The South Sea Bubble Research visit field trip to the South Sea Bubble Resources Collection in the Kress Collection at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School
5	Monopoly Capitalism and Financial Innovation	Paper 1 due
6	Plantation Capitalism
7	The Question of Money (some Anglo-American examples)
8	Tea, the American Revolution, and the British Empire
9	The Economic and Financial Origins of the French Revolution (I)
10	The Economic and Financial Origins of the French Revolution (II)
11	The Revolutionary Origins of American Capitalism
12	Slavery and American Capitalism (I)	Paper 2 due
13	Slavery and American Capitalism (II)
14	Capitalism Today
15	Final class	Paper 3 due