HET 1 | A new reading series begins on Hunt & Lautzenheiser's "The History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective," supplemented by Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers."Full Show on Free Patreon Tier patreon.com/solidair00:00 Book Club, History of Economic Thought12:44 Theoretical Expression; Land, Labor, and Capital20:55 Medieval Europe, Feudalism, Three-Field System24:52 Merchant Capital, Arbitrage31:37 The State, Mercantilism, Poor Laws, Pauperism34:35 Putting-Out System, Enclosure, Productive Capital, Wage-Labor37:33 Physiocrats, Proto-Classical Economic Thinking

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WSA 2 | Chapter One of Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction: "Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis: From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Systems"

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Chapter 0: Intro/Glossary | A first brush with Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, setting the stage and nailing down some definitions.

Part 2 is now available in False Forms, a Patreon bonus series exploring Hegel and his interpreters.

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Detour A: Classical, Progressive, Interwar Liberalism Full Series On

CHAPTERS
00:00 Gerstle Protean Character of Liberalism
11:35 Classical Liberalism
13:42 Progressivism, Interwar Liberalism
25:20 Postwar Liberalism, Cold War Liberalism
27:14 Closing Up

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| Ep. 13 | Chapter: P&G's Making of Global Capitalism

We wrap up the "Launching of Global Capitalism" section of the Panitch & Gindin book, focusing on the Marshall Plan funds to recover Western Europe, the US export of productivism and technological/managerial transfers, GATT, "embedded liberalism" as a kind of New Deal internationalism, and the shifting relations of the US to the Middle East, Latin America, and Japan in the 1950s. CHAPTERS.

00:00 Introduction

06:36 The Story So Far

13:45 US Wealth Inequality Trends

18:25 Marshall Plan, US Rescue of European Capitalism

31:30 Containment and New Deal Internationalism

41:27 Marshall Plan, Middle East, Latin America, Japan

47:45 Closing up

SOURCES- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"- Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers"SOLID AIRFiguring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. The full series can be accessed as a free Patreon member ( https://www.patreon.com/collection/1219832?view=condensed ). This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes'Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management.

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| Solid Air 11 | Detour: The Golden Years of the Postwar Economic Order

SOURCES- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"- Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers"Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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| Solid Air 10 | Chapter: Bretton Woods & the Consumer Boom We finish chapter three of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire" with a discussion of the Bretton Woods system, the rise of the Keynesian in the later arc of the New Deal, along with its production/consumption economy, the Treaty of Detroit and its implication for labor/union commensuration with that system, and then a discussion of the consumer boom and the build-up to eh Marshall Plan.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

09:16 Broader Arc of the New Deal

18:09 Planning the Postwar Order

31:57 Bretton Woods & the White Plan

49:42 Treaty of Detroit & Consumer Boom

01:05:00 Outro

SOURCES

- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"- Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers"

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Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management.

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Detour 1, The Great Depression.In the first detour this month, we expand our coverage of the Great Depression through Eric Hobsbawm's analysis of the period in his book Age of Extremes.

CHAPTERS.

00:00 Introduction

03:05 A Global Depression

21:25 Outro

SOURCES

- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"

- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"

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- Unlock it as a "free member" on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-feed-here-109526622

Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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We finish chapter two of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire" with a discussion of the Great Depression, FDR's "sane radicalism," and the two phases of the New Deal. We also read some of Robert Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophers.

CHAPTERS.

00:00 Introduction

09:02 The Great Depression

22:34 FDR's "Sane Radicalism"

28:49 The First New Deal

40:45 The Second New Deal

45:12 A Truce with Capital

48:55 Outro

SOURCES

- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"

- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"- Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers"

- Federal Reserve History: Emergency Banking Act of 1933 https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/emergency-banking-act-of-1933

- Federal Reserve History: Glass-Steagall https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/glass-steagall-act

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Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.