| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $400: We are "at liberty" to say capitalism is also known as this 2-word economy, an unregulated system of economic exchange free market |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $800: Jurgis' journey through capitalism & exploitation takes him from worker to strikebreaker in this Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $200: Its preamble includes the "Chairman" who "in 1949, overthrew the rule of... bureaucratic capitalism" China |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | MARK'S "-ISM" $600: Asked about this versus socialism, Mark Cuban says this "is going to win" capitalism |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | -ISMs $400: This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise capitalism |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | NONFICTION $200: Milton Friedman's 1962 book titled this economic -ism "& Freedom" says that the first is tied to the second capitalism |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | THE SECOND MILLENNIUM $600: Mao said, "Never forget" this Marxist "struggle"; 2 years after he died, China kind of got amnesia & moved toward capitalism the class struggle |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $1200: Dagny, you will fall in love with John Galt even though you are a stand-in for Ayn Rand's vision of capitalism Atlas Shrugged |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $1600: In history's stages per Karl Marx, feudalism gave way to this -ism, AKA the free market capitalism |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT $400: This Scot's "The Wealth of Nations" is a classic of laissez-faire capitalism Adam Smith |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | HIT THE BOOKS $1000: Max Weber:
"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of" this economic system capitalism |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $200: CNBC's David Faber wrote "And Then the Roof Caved In: How" this street's "Greed & Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees" Wall Street |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: Max Weber, a founder of modern sociology, wrote of this religious "Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" the Protestant ethic |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1964 this woman big into laissez-faire capitalism offered "The Virtue of Selfishness" Ayn Rand |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | ALL "CAP"S $800: Its first use was in an 1833 London Standard article on economics deploring "the tyranny of" this capitalism |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WHAT'D I SAY? $400: Daniel Bell:
"Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And" this "is vice versa" communism |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $2000: A surprise 2014 bestseller was Thomas Piketty's 700-page tome about income inequality, this "in the 21st Century" Capital |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AT THIS STAGE $600: Karl Marx said this economic system was the stage of society during which he was writing, but that it was doomed capitalism |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | A SHOW OF HANDS $800: Using a term from 1759, Mitt Romney said this "moves faster & better than the heavy hand of the government" the invisible hand (of the market) |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RUSSIAN TO JUDGMENT $200: Exiled in Siberia in 1899, this man wrote (ironically) "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" Vladimir Lenin |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $400: In July 2012 he said as president, he'd show "the good things that can happen (with) more free enterprise"--he didn't get to (Mitt) Romney |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $800: Better known as a novelist, she defended the morality of laissez-faire in "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" Ayn Rand |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $1200: The 1930s pitted free market fan F.A. Hayek at the LSE, this school, vs. Cambridge's pro-government action J.M. Keynes the London School of Economics |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $1600: Capitalism was called "the perfect system" in this business magazine that calls itself a "capitalist tool" Forbes |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $2000: The Uncle Miltie of economics, he wrote in "Capitalism and Freedom" that the former creates the latter Friedman |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $400: Published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, this pair's "Communist Manifesto" declared capitalism evil & exploitive Marx & Engels |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1200: Economics: This "wealth of nations" man called laissez-faire capitalism the system of perfect liberty Adam Smith |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $200: Marx & Engels gave us the line "A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of" this -ism communism |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S TOP 10 WORDS OF 2008 $800: Used in 2008 political mudslinging, this Marxist theory lies "between capitalism & communism" socialism |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | ECONOMICS $2000: Joseph Schumpeter said this system is maintained by the "creative destruction" of innovators & entrepreneurs capitalism |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | ENGLISHMEN $2000: Brit economist John Stuart Mill was a great proponent of this "greatest good for the greatest number" system utilitarianism |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $200: This European capital is home to Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University Warsaw |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $400: Population 8 million, this capital & largest city in Africa was founded by the Fatimid Dynasty around 968 A.D. Cairo |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $600: Settled around 1824, it replaced Melbourne as the capital in 1927 Canberra |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $800: The Nobel Museum in this capital lets visitors "see the dynamite, the mold & the books that changed the world" Stockholm |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $1000: In 1857 Queen Victoria chose it as a North American national capital Ottawa |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | IMMIGRANTS $3,600 (Daily Double): This woman who defended capitalism in her novels came to the U.S. from the USSR in 1926 Ayn Rand |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SOCIOLOGY $800: It's the -ism based on self-interest, profit & free competition; Karl Marx wasn't thrilled with it Capitalism |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | ECONOMICS $400: Karl Marx put this system between capitalism & communism socialism |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $400: In 1946 this dictator said the world was divided into "two camps" & war was inevitable while capitalism existed Joseph Stalin |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WE ARE THE WORLD $400: This union organized in Chicago in 1905 wanted to overthrow capitalism the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW or the "Wobblies") |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | SOMETHIN' TO "C" $600: The means of production are privately owned in this economic system Capitalism |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | ISMs $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Weber's best-known work is "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of" this economic system Capitalism |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: In 1899 he published "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" under the pseudonym Vladimir Ilyin Lenin |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1000: German thinker who saw a link between "The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism" Max Weber |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | RHYME TIME $100: An '84 agreement on this colony permits capitalism for 50 years after China takes control in 1997 Hong Kong |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: In Soviet edition of Oxford Dictionary socialism is "economic system which is replacing" this capitalism |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | ECONOMICS $200: In Poland, they say "Under capitalism, man exploits man, while under" this system, "it's vice versa" communism (or socialism) |
| #98, aired 1985-01-23 | ECONOMICS $800: Though a factory owner, he helped Marx denounce capitalism Engels |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | TYPES OF GOVERNMENT $600: According to Marx, under this system, government is supposed to wither away communism |
