The Age of Uncertainty — Season 1, Episode 2: The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
Documentary • 54 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Professor Galbraith looks at the ideas that sustained the rich in the 19th century and how they still affect our attitudes today. Herbert Spencer justified the moneymaking in straight Darwinian terms as 'survival of the fittest'. Thorstein Veblen thought a parallel with Papuans a more appropriate one.
About The Age of Uncertainty
A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
- E3The Dissent of Karl Marx
- E4The Colonial Idea
- E5Lenin and the Great Ungluing
- E6The Rise and Fall of Money
- E7The Mandarin Revolution
- E8The Fatal Competition
- E9The Big Corporation
- E10Land and the People
- E11The Metropolis
- E12Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
- E13Weekend in Vermont - Part 1