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The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won't Tell You
The Morality of Capitalism What Your Professors Won't Tell You Author:Tom G. Palmer (Editor) The second in the What Your Professors Won't Tell You series of essays on political economy, this collection includes thirteen essays; authors include Nobel Prize winners Mario Vargas Llosa and Vernon Smith, Whole Foods Market CEO and founder John Mackey, and scholars from across the globe.This book series is a project of the campus... more » organization Students for Liberty and is intended to "offer the other side of the debate, the side that is rarely acknowledged to exist" in college courses on economics and political science. Students are encouraged to "read the best criticisms of free market capitalism.
Marx, Sombart, Rawls, Sandel" and then "wrestle with the arguments offered in this book, think about them, and make up your own mind." The first book in this series The Economics of Freedom: Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat, includes a foreword by Nobel Prize economist F.A. Hayek.
Contents:
Interview with an Entrepreneur / featuring John Mackey, conducted by Tom G. Palmer --
Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World / Deirdre N. McCloskey --
Competition and Cooperation / David Boaz --
For-Profit Medicine and the Compassion Motive / Tom G. Palmer --
The Paradox of Morality / Mao Yushi --
The Moral Logic of Equality and Inequality in Market Society / Leonid V. Nikonov --
Adam Smith and the Myth of Greed / Tom G. Palmer --
Ayn Rand and Capitalism: The Moral Revolution / David Kelley --
The Market Economy and the Distribution of Wealth / Ludwig Lachmann --
Political and Economic Freedoms Together Spawn Humanity's Miracles / Temba A. Nolutschungu --
Global Capitalism and Justice / June Arunga --
Human Betterment Through Globalization / Vernon Smith --