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Dec 14, 2025
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SOSC 7354 - The Intellectual History of Capitalism
Credits: 3
Explores capitalism as the defining economic system of the modern era and reviews its intellectual history. Topics include the origins of classical liberalism vis-a-vis Adam Smith and his predecessors, the French debate on limited government and virtuous materialism, capitalism’s critics (Karl Marx or Leo XIII), capitalism’s skeptics (Thorstein Veblen and J.A. Hobson or Joseph Schumpeter), the Austrian school and its dual legacy, the neoliberalism of F.A. Hayek, and the economic democracy of Karl Polanyi. This course may be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities; global studies; American studies.
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