Capitalism in Western Thought
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
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 the Decent Society, and Conservatism- An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
“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
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