April 7, 2006

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  	All videos are available in Quicktime 5
  	Episode One: The Battle of Ideas
  		Chapter 1: Prologue 3:55				Chapter 11: Chicago Against the Tide 7:32
  				The present situation Title sequence				Outside the mainstream The spirit of Chicago Harnessing economic forces The Keynesian high tide
  		Chapter 2: The Old Order Fails 8:11				Chapter 12: The Specter of Stagflation 6:34
  				Meet Keynes and Hayek The first era of globalization
  		Chapter 3: Communism on the Heights 6:16				Chapter 13: A Mixed Economy Flounders 8:36
  				Hayek explores socialism The Austrian School’s critique What Lenin learned Stalin’s totalitarian plan				Britain under price controls The “Mad Monk” repents The grocer’s daughter listens Thatcher and Hayek
  		Chapter 4: A Capitalist Collapse 8:48				Chapter 14: Deregulation Takes Off 7:29
  				German hyperinflation American boom and bust Fascism takes hold in Europe Can Keynes save capitalism?				America bogged down The airlines and Panamania Deregulating the sandwiches Costs and benefits
  		Chapter 5: Global Depression 5:26				Chapter 15: Thatcher Takes the Helm 3:50
  				Roosevelt improvises Regulating the markets Keynes completes his Theory Keynes’s apostles in America				The Winter of Discontent Hayek’s birthday present Shock therapy for Britain The lady’s not for turning
  		Chapter 6: Worldwide War 7:00				Chapter 16: Reagan Rides In 8:17
  				A victory for planning Hayek’s warning Keynes at Bretton Woods World at a crossroads				The double-digit dragon Volcker at the Fed Reagan tightens the reins Tax cuts, deregulation, deficits
  		Chapter 7: Planning the Peace 6:47				Chapter 17: War in the South Atlantic 1:41
  				Britain seeks “fair shares” Churchill’s defeat Labor nationalizes the heights Communism’s rapid gains				Argentina attacks Thatcher gambles all Victory’s dividend An economic sea change
  		Chapter 8: Pilgrim Mountain 3:43				Chapter 18: The Heights Go Up for Sale 8:08
  				Hayek’s Mont Pélerin conference Enter Milton Friedman Democracy and free markets A long fight ahead				Targeting state-owned industries The economics of coal Breaking the miners’ strike Socialism turned back
  		Chapter 9: Germany’s Bold Move 4:11				Chapter 19: The Battle Decided? 3:26
  				The ruins of postwar Germany Price controls vs. inflation Erhard defies the Allies The market economy revives				Idea politicians The whole world watches A century comes full circle The battle decided for good?
  		Chapter 10: India’s Way 3:51
  				Nehru and Gandhi part ways A science of central planning The Mahalanobis equation A socialist model for development

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

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