Chapter 1 Toward Commercial Order Part 2 Part 1: Foundations Chapter 3 Neither Angel nor Beast Chapter 4 The System of Natural Liberty Chapter 5 The Liberty of Law Part 6 Part 2: Challenges Chapter 7 The Temptation of Politics Chapter 8 The Dilemma of Democracy Chapter 9 Culture and the Possibility of "Non-Spontaneous" Commercial Society
Samuel Gregg is director of research at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Commercial Society is one of those books which reminds us that
commerce, trade, and free economies are deeply rooted in
foundations that we tend to take for granted - until they
disintegrate or are taken away. Gregg's message of commercial
humanism is truly inspiring, and his warnings about its fragility
bear repeating.
*Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute*
So much of Latin America continues to suffer the ravages of
mercantile, neo-corporatist attitudes, policies, and institutions.
Unless there is an systematic embrace of the type of moral, legal,
and economic order described in Gregg's Commercial Society,
populism will become the norm, corruption will continue to
flourish, and untold millions who yearn only to express their
economic creativity will continue to live in sub-human conditions.
A well-written, easy to comprehend text that does not shy away from
explaining complex issues.
*Ricardo Crespo, Universidad Austral, Argentina*
Gregg has contributed a major work to the growing literature in the
field of the commerical society and its relationship to ethical and
cultural foundations.
*Ethics and Economics*
An excellent study of economic liberty, its essential
prerequisites, and its greatest challenges today. Everyone can
learn something from this, especially those Europeans whose
countries are mired in bureaucracy, stagnation, and what
Tocqueville called "soft despotism."
*Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister of Estoria*
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