Chris Patten on the BBC talks about the many flavours of capitalism, starting with Western liberal democracy and its differences with a Leninist model of capitalism or protocapitalism, if you will. Lenin was famous for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917, replacing the Tsarist autocracy of the Russian Empire and the founding of the Soviet Union.
An interesting political economist is Francis Fukuyama, former analyst at RAND corporation, who wrote the book "The End of History" (read a summarising article here). A background on the development of capitalism since the Middle Ages is detailed here.
Interesting programs on political economics include Stanford's GSB PhD program.
The first law of economics: things that can't go on forever, don't.
60-second spiel on how to improve the world.
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