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The Mind and the Market

Capitalism in Western Thought

Capitalism in Western Thought

By Jerry Z. Muller

By Jerry Z. Muller

By Jerry Z. Muller

By Jerry Z. Muller

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    About The Mind and the Market

    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.

    About The Mind and the Market

    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.

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    About Jerry Z. Muller

    Jerry Z. Muller is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing… More about Jerry Z. Muller

    About Jerry Z. Muller

    Jerry Z. Muller is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing… More about Jerry Z. Muller

    Product Details

    Category: World History | Economics | Politics

    Paperback | $23.00
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 11, 2003 | 512 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385721660

    Category: World History | Economics | Politics

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 18, 2007 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9780307428998

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    Praise

    “A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas.”—Peter L. Berger, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture

    “Comprehensive, lucidly analytical, and splendidly, admirably objective.”—Howard M. Sachar, author of A History of Israel and Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War

    “Thanks to Muller’s sensitive and critical guidance, we come away knowing the subject far better than would otherwise be possible.”—David S. Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction

    ONE
    Historical Backdrop: Rights, Righteousness, and Virtue

    TWO
    Voltaire: “A Merchant of a Noble Kind”

    THREE
    Adam Smith: Moral Philosophy and Political Economy

    FOUR
    Justus Möser: The Market as Destroyer of Culture

    FIVE
    Edmund Burke: Commerce, Conservatism, and the Intellectuals

    SIX
    Hegel: A Life Worth Choosing

    SEVEN
    Karl Marx: From Jewish Usury to Universal Vampirism

    EIGHT
    Matthew Arnold: Weaning the Philistines from the Drug of Business

    NINE
    Weber, Simmel, and Sombart: Community, Individuality, and Rationality

    TEN
    Lukás and Freyer: From the Quest for Community to the Temptations of Totality

    ELEVEN
    Schumpeter: Innovation and Resentment

    TWELVE
    From Keynes to Marcuse: Affluence and Its Discontents

    THIRTEEN
    Friedrich Hayek: Untimely Liberal

    Conclusion

    Notes
    Acknowledgments
    Index

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