The Culture of Capitalism

The course asks how cultural products, including literature, theater, and film have captured the spirit of capitalism—fueling its fantasies, contemplating its effects, and chronicling its crises.

More than just an economic system, capitalism created new habits of life and mind as well as new values, forged and distilled by new forms of art.

Core readings by Franklin, O'Neill, Rand, Miller, and Mamet and background readings by Smith, Marx, Taylor, Weber, Keynes, and Schumpeter.