Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

The course reviews the great debates on capitalist economic growth to shed light on the current epochal transformation of the global economy. Can capitalism survive? Can socialism work? The debate continues. Why and how has American capitalism shaped the emergence of dynamic capitalism in China? What enables and guides the emergence of a global high-technology knowledge economy in the 21st century? What is the relationship between capitalism as an economic order and democracy?