Arthur Seldon's new book is a tenacious and elegant 'celebration' of capitalism despite its faults. Traditionally, socialist critics have contrasted capitalism as it is in the world we have known with socialism as it is envisaged in a world they have yet to demonstrate is possible. It creates a false debate that socialism must win and capitalism cannot win whatsoever its achievements. Furthermore, it confuses the people's choice between the 'capitalist hell' they know and the 'socialist heaven' they are promised. Using the methodology of the critics of capitalism in the opposite direction, the book places socialism as it is against capitalism as it could be.Arthur Seldon argues that neither system is without faults and failures, but that an informed choice is properly made by assessing the degree to which they can be corrected. The book argues that, unlike socialism, the waknesses of capitalism are not inevitable nor fundamental to the system it creates and concludes that it is with capitalism that the choice must lie.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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further reading list, index
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-631-12558-7 (9780631125587)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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; a day in the life of liberal capitalism.
