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81) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 23,Speeding Up: Canals, Steamships, Railroads
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones-each of these 19th-century innovations helped create the globalized, interconnected world that we currently inhabit in the 21st century. Follow the trajectory of the history of modern transportation and communication (with its emphasis on speed) as it relates to the story of economics.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Go inside the creation of large, state-sponsored joint-stock companies in the 17th century-including the Bourse in Antwerp and the Exchanges in London and Amsterdam-and discover how negotiated public spaces became essential commercial institutions. Also, consider the importance of merchant manuals, which collated commercial rules and best practices.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With about {dollar}80 trillion of investment opportunities outside the United States, foreign investment can be a tempting option. Learn how the rules for diversifying into these investments are changing, and what you need to know to help ensure that your foreign investment decisions are as sound as possible.
84) Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters: Episode 14,Japan's Lost Decade
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, the Japanese economy seemed unstoppable. Then, it came to a screeching halt, miring the nation in more than two decades of economic stagnation. What went wrong? Analyze Japan's postwar brand of capitalism, focusing on how its regulatory, political, and banking systems created a "bubble economy" - until the global economy and regulatory climate abruptly changed and the bubble burst.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Zero in on the whole point of investing: reaching a particular goal or goals you've decided on. This lecture uses the calculating tools you've already learned to show you how to plan for your retirement, but its techniques can be applied to any financial goal you set for yourself.
86) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 46,China, India: Two Paths to Wealth Extremes
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Take a trip to the new frontiers of the world economy. You'll learn how India, by promoting its wealth of human capital, and China, by promoting foreign investment, have become two of the world's great economic powers. You'll also consider the influence played by political figures, including Gandhi, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaoping.
87) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 30,Imperialism: Land Grabs and Morality Plays
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the late 19th century, Europe and the United States established control over much of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Examine the international treaties that decided the fate of nations and civilizations, the Opium Wars, theories of social Darwinism, and how nationalistic competition among industrialized countries came to dominate how the West interacted with the non-industrialized world.
88) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 19,A Second Industrial Revolution after 1850
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What makes the Second Industrial Revolution so different from its predecessor? Learn why the United States (thanks to close ties with Great Britain) was an early participant in this second phase, which saw the dawn of the American system of interchangeable parts and a stronger bond between science and industry.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Using Great Britain as a microcosm for Western Europe, examine several key changes in the relationship between agriculture and production that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution. These changes include the increased centralization of government and the increased concentration of labor in the cities.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this first lecture about bonds - with the focus on a "buy-and-hold" strategy - grasp the variety of available bonds and the features most important to an investor: who issued them, whether they are secured, and the timing of payments. You also learn how to "ladder" your holdings for a consistent income stream.
91) Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters: Episode 6,The Mississippi Bubble
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the details of the Mississippi bubble, an early 18th-century financial crisis sparked by speculation in the anticipated wealth of French Louisiana. Learn how the bubble's instigator, John Law, a Scottish gambler and convicted murderer, gained control of the French economy and pushed ideas that were ahead of their time - so far ahead that they plunged France into economic collapse.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inspect the unprecedented run on the international financial system in 2007 - 2008, which led to the worst recession since the Great Depression. Learn the ins and outs of subprime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations, and structured investment vehicles, which fueled a U.S. housing-construction boom that involved most of the world's major financial institutions.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Meet a modern-day Frankenstein's monster, a human creation on the loose - in this case, computerized trading. Discover how the rage for portfolio insurance controlled by computer algorithms, combined with a rapidly rising market and skittish investors, sparked the Black Monday crash of October 19, 1987, during which the Dow Jones index lost 23 percent of its value.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Interpreted correctly, dividends can be an extremely revealing indicator of a company's value. Explore not only dividends, but several other ways by which companies can reward their shareholders, including preferred stock, dividend reinvestment programs, and stock splits.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a financial disaster called the Great Contraction, one-third of all banks in the United States failed between 1931 and early 1933. Examine the causes of this collapse in confidence, which also affected building and loan associations, made famous in the movie It's a Wonderful Life. Appraise government attempts to stem the crisis, which led to legislation including the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In addition to understanding some basic ideas, you need some key skills for smart investing. This lecture teaches you how to perform the simple calculations that will enable you to compare returns across different investments, project their future value, and estimate a reasonable price to pay for them.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Professor Harreld explains the socialist ideology of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which became the widely accepted variety of socialism in the early 20th century. You'll learn Marx's stages of development; how Lenin steered Russia on the path of war communism"; and how Stalin rejected the economic path laid out for Russia in favor of something much worse."
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Learn why stocks, though often not the best place for a newcomer to begin investing, can be the best means of learning about investing. Explore key ideas like dealers vs. brokers, the different kinds of buy-or-sell orders, and what stocks really are.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Add another stock-pricing model to your toolbox - the Dividend Discount Model. You learn that such fundamentals-based models rest on two ideas: that an investment's price should depend only on what it will pay you, and that future cash is worth less than present cash.
100) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 27,Understanding Uneven Economic Development
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Turn now to some of the factors that affected late 19th-century industrialization and, in some cases, led to uneven economic development among different countries. You'll learn how this unequal power in economic relationships contributed to a significant resentment toward capitalist systems in the West, with some countries feeling that industrialization had exacerbated economic disparity.
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