The Age Of Uncertainty (1977) Pt 2 - The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism

The Age Of Uncertainty (1977)




Narrated & hosted by John Kenneth Galbraith.

The ideas of economists and social philosophers shape actions and events even when we are unaware of their sources. They have a decisive influence on the great rush of revolution and change through which the world has passed in the last two hundred years. Professor John Kenneth Galbraith traces these ideas and their consequences from Adam Smith, through Marx and Lenin, to Keynes and to the thinking that gave shape to the concepts of the Cold War, the corporation and, now, the conflicts and concerns of the Third World.


2 - The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism

The robber baron industrial capitalists of the late nineteenth century and examines their conspicuous consumption concept of earning and spending money. It discusses ways in which this concept affects our attitudes today.