The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought-Fast Shipping

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Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians,poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effectsof capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mindand the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developedin Western thought.

Ranging across an ideological spectrum that includes Hobbes,Voltaire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Hegel, Marx, and Matthew Arnold, as well as twentieth-centurycommunist, fascist, and neoliberal intellectuals, historian Jerry Muller examinesa fascinating thread of ideas about the ramifications of capitalism and its futureimplications. This is an engaging and accessible history of ideas that reverberatethroughout everyday life.