Full name: The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

Author: Jerry Z. Muller Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385721660 0385721668

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developed in Western thought. Ranging across an ideological spectrum that includes Hobbes, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Hegel, Marx, and Matthew Arnold, as well as twentieth-century communist, fascist, and neoliberal intellectuals, historian Jerry Muller examines a fascinating thread of ideas about the ramifications of capitalism and its future implications. This is an engaging and accessible history of ideas that reverberate throughout everyday life. Similar books: Capitalism and the Historians by F. A. Hayek A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark American Capitalism by John Kenneth Galbraith Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre N. McCloskey Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations by David Warsh The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman The Great Deformation by David A. Stockman The Soul of Capitalism by William Greider Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre N. McCloskey False Economy by Alan Beattie The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig von Mises The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell Socialism by Ludwig von Mises Conquests And Cultures by Thomas Sowell The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi The Problem with Socialism by Thomas J. DiLorenzo