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Modern Business: Division of Labor, Algorithms, and Crisis
500 Years of the Modern World, Final Season
Completed · 36 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Shi Zhan: Find the Key to Modern Economic Life and Become Truly Modern 1. An Economic History for Every Ordinary Person 2. Moneylenders Escape Hell: How Merchants Were Reborn in Modern Society 3. The Last Aristocrats: The Fate of Great Families in Modern Society 4. The Capricious Monarch: A Game of Power Between the Modern State and the Market 5. The Entrepreneur as Adventurer: The Fourth Element of the Modern Market Economy 6. Busy and Productive Civil Servants: The Professional Bureaucracy of Modern Commerce 7. Citizens or Corporate Serfs? Workers in Modern Commercial Society Listener Questions | Does Modernization Affect Women's Awareness of Rights? Why Was the British Gold Sovereign Created? 8. Knowledge Is Profit: The Secret of Wealth Creation in Modern Society 9. The Spread of Books: How Science and Commerce Joined Forces 10. Weights, Measures, Coordinates, and Clocks: Measurement Technology and Mass Production 11. The Birth of Algorithms: Gears, Springs, and the Mechanical Universe 12. The Evolution of Algorithms: Turing Machines, Machine Language, and Virtual Reality 13. Will Machines Rule Humanity's Future? Listener Questions | How Can Humans Control Their Destiny Rather Than Serve Machines? Was Episode 12 Really Voiced by AI? 14. Property Rights: The Foundation of Modern Commercial Society Bonus | What Do We Mean When We Talk About Capital? 15. The Spirit of Contract: Shaping Relationships in Modern Commercial Society 16. The Truth About Firms: How a Market Economy Operates 17. The Dark Side of Markets: Why Can Monopoly Never Be Eliminated? 18. IP Hegemony: How Do Property Rights Become Monopoly Power? 19. The Myth of Market Failure: What Is Economic Order in a Commercial Age? Listener Questions | Do We Need Economics Today? Is Deglobalization a Lasting Trend or a Temporary Interlude? 20. From Spices to Tea: What Drove Modern Economic Globalization to Maturity? 21. Globalization and Specialized Labor from an Economic Perspective 22. Economic Globalization: Modern Blessing or Imperialist Plot? 23. A Divided World: The Curse of Economic Globalization? 24. Globalization's Future: Return to the Jungle or Rebuild Order? Listener Questions | Why Are Spices Less Famous as Crops Than Coffee and Tea? Is Trade Balance Always Best? 25. Tulip Mania: Financial Innovation or Human Greed and Folly? 26. The Mississippi Scheme: How a Scotsman Wrecked Parisian Finance 27. The South Sea Bubble: The Distance Between Greatness and Shamelessness 28. The Great Crash of 1929 I: A Tale of Two Prophets 29. The Great Crash of 1929 II: A World in Disorder 30. The Great Crash of 1929 III: Will the Long Winter Come?