A Crash Course in Capitalism and Socialism

by Joe Carter • June 17, 2016

Unclear on how capitalism and/or socialism got started? John Green provides a 12-minute crash course that answers how we got from the British East India Company to iPhones and from Karl Marx to Swedish-style socialism.

Warning: Green’s style and digressions can be a bit grating, but overall the material is worth watching. (I’d also recommend increasing YouTube’s speed setting to 1.5 or 2 for faster viewing.)

Joe Carter

Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).

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