Disc 1. Gorbachev's hello and the Soviet goodbye --
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman --
How to argue GDP, inflation, and other data --
British revolution: industry and labor --
American capitalism: Hamilton and Jefferson --
Utopian socialism to Amana microwave ovens --
Disc 2. The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin --
Soviet planning and 1,000 left-foot shoes --
Economic consequences of European peace --
How FDR and Keynes tried to save capitalism --
Social democracy in Europe --
Sweden's mixed economy model --
Disc 3. French indicative planning and Jean Monnet --
British Labour Party and National Health --
Social welfare in Germany: Bismarck to Kohl --
Soviet Bloc: conformity and resistance --
Two Germanies: a laboratory in economics --
The Soviet Union's fatal failure to reform --
Disc 4. "Blinkered and bankrupt" in Eastern Europe --
From Chairman Mao to the capitalist roaders --
After Deng, China privatizes and globalizes --
Asian Tigers: wealth and state control --
European Union: success or failure? --
Both sides now: experiment in Slovenia.
