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Title: |
Virtues of Capitalism |
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| Edited by: |
Colin Robinson |
| ISBN10-13: |
0865975426 : 9780865975422 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
478 |
| Weight: |
.936 Kg. |
| Published: |
Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - September 2004 |
| List Price: |
19.95 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Economics |
| Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Economics during Friedrich Hayek's time there. For over thirty years he was Editorial Director of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalise their economies. "The Virtues of Capitalism", the inaugural volume in Liberty Fund's Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, presents the foundation of Seldon's views and theories of capitalism and its alternatives. Entitled "Corrigible Capitalism; Incorrigible Socialism", part one of "The Virtues of Capitalism" was first published in 1980. It explains why, Seldon believes, 'private enterprise is imperfect but redeemable', but the state economy promises the earth, and ends in coercion to conceal its incurable failure. The second part, 'Capitalism', is widely considered to be Seldon's finest work. It covers a wide range of the classical liberal thought that inspired the movement toward free-market reforms in Great Britain in opposition to the collectivist tide of socialism. In an understandable and eloquent manner, Seldon offers 'Capitalism' as a celebration rather than a defence of classical liberalism. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Part One: Corrigible Capitalism, Incorrigible Socialism -- Mobilising Humanity for Progress; Market Success: Curable Defects; Government Failure: Incurable Defects; The Reigning Error: State Holism vs. Market Experimentation; Reversing the tide; Finale: Summary and Policy. Part Two: Capitalism -- The Stake; Indoctrination Against Capitalism; The Inevitability of Capitalism; The Return and Advance to Capitalism; Political and Market Democracy; The Capitalist Open Secret; Intellectual Reinforcement for Capitalism; More Intellectual Reinforcement for Capitalism; The Criticisms of Capitalism; The "Vision" of Capitalism; The Galloping Horses; The Values of Capitalism; The Verdict; Prospects. |
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