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87 reviews
Frederick Bastiat

Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007

Plunder by the State democratically legalized
In 1850 a French guy wrote this little essay on the Law. It could have been written today in the US, in Europe, because we are certainly not progressing in terms of common-sense, politically. Here are some ideas: -Justice is the absence of injustice. Nothing more than that. -What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than Him. The fact that this rule is almost universally broken ...

Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks

46 reviews
The Beatty Boys

Tate Publishing, 2008

I see success in their future!
If this is any indication, I see a pot full of success in these young men's future! God bless you, Rush.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet

17 reviews
Frances Moore Lappe, Anna Lappe

Tarcher, 2003

Goes into my life's top 5
I won't say much here, because the other reviewers have described the book well. All I will say is that this is one of the very best books I have ever read. Not only does Lappe have an incredible way with words, but she summarizes her profound insights in such a way that really organizes one's thoughts for genuine reflection. Add to that a well-documented and researched approach, as well as ...

Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

38 reviews
Ayn Rand

Dutton Adult, 2005

One of the best books I have ever read.
Long book, but well worth the time to read. Very prophetic of where our country is heading now.

After Capitalism: Prout's Vision for a New World

21 reviews
Maheshvarananda

Proutist Universal Publications, 2003

A Wealth of Information and Ideas
The most important contribution of this book is that it presents an alternative to the free market economy we have taken for granted. Especially after the fall of communism, most people have taken capitalism as the given order of life instead of seeing it for what it really is: An economic system that is dominant at a given point of time. 'After Capitalism' shows us that there are alternative ...

Tyler & His Solve-a-matic Machine- Winner in the 2007 Excellent Books Category from the Prestigious ...

18 reviews

Bouje Publishing, 2006

A wonderful lesson in capitalism and entrepreneurship
Young Tyler Sogno has big dreams - he would like to buy a big boat, and sail all around the world. But, being an orphan, and a bit of a slacker, he knows that his dreams will never come true. However, when a disembodied voice tells him that there is a path to that brighter future, Tyler sits up and take notice. The voice tells him that to make his dreams come true, he must become an entrepreneur! ...

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

102 reviews
Roger Lowenstein

Main Street Books, 1996

Excellent
Well researched, analyzed, and written. I see why Buffett was silently acceptive in autographing it. Superb job in reporting both analytical economics and personal life. Truth. I will read more from this author.

Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise

29 reviews
Edward W. Younkins

Lexington Books, 2002

Must have for all Lovers of Freedom.
The problem nowadays with discourse on political and economic issues is that there is much confusion over the definition of terms. Two groups demand rights but they're in conflict because one group wants welfare rights while the other wants liberty rights. Whose claim for rights is legitimate? Well, that all depends on what is the definition of a right. Younkins' wonderful contribution with ...

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

21 reviews
Muhammad Yunus

PublicAffairs, 2008

Social Business, a concept that can save this world
When I bought this book, my expectations were primarily to get a deeper insight into micro credit, since Prof Yunus is best known for this powerful means for empowering the poor to free themselves from the shackles of poverty. However, from the first chapter itself, it was abundantly cleat that this book is about the novel concept of Social Business, a paradigm shift in the way we look at ...

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

17 reviews
Thomas K. McCraw

Belknap Press, 2007

Analyst of Change
Moravian-born, Vienna-educated Professor Joseph Alois Schumpeter, who liked to say of his aspirations to be the world's greatest economist, horseman, and lover that only the second had given him problems, was a study in contrasts. He relished his fame as one of the interwar years' premier economic theorists yet modestly declined to mention his work in his Harvard classes or in his exhaustive book ...

Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well

8 reviews
Marc Benioff, Karen Southwick

Career Press, 2004

PR Week Review
PR Week US BOOK REVIEW - 'Compassionate' gives readers a lot 02.23.04 Andrew Gordon A breath of fresh air amongst the many business books out there, Compassionate Capitalism is full of insight and trade secrets simply about building the bottom line. At a time when many corporations have cut back their philanthropy, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff shows how giving back is always a good idea. ...

Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship Among the Malays (St. Antony's Series)

12 reviews
Patricia Sloane

Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Imagination is Thrilling
Not since Eliot set upon the drizzly Dank has an Americanevidenced such bold, imaginative writing. I accidently happened uponProfessor Sloane- White's ethnography while designing what is perhaps the first psychology curriculum to emphasize a cultural and international perspective for the national university of a developing country. Sloane- White's account of a segment of Malay society added to ...

Do No Evil: Ethics with Applications to Economic Theory and Business

8 reviews
Michael Edward Berumen

iUniverse, Inc., 2003

A Remarkable Synthesis
One of the few modern philsophy books with practical value...how to live one's life...and theoretical rigour from a philosophical perspective. This is a masterful synthesis of analytical philsophy, normative ethics, economics and business. I highly recommend this to serious students of any of these disciplines. Berumen begins by showing how ethical propositions have meaning and how logic ...

The wheels of commerce (Civilization and capitalism)

10 reviews
Fernand Braudel

Book Club Associates, 1983

WOW!
I don't even LIKE history or economics...but I love this book. In the course of researching some historical background for an English Lit paper, I ran across two of Braudel's books -- this was one of them. It was so fascinating that I read the entire book (even though what I needed for the paper was a few pages); and then I went ahead and bought my own copy, plus others by this author.

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

15 reviews
J. Kevin Sheehan

True Gifts Publishing, 2007

Wonderful Gift
Kevin Sheehan has simplified the great qualities of important leaders and placed them in an entertaining text. A gift which I have passed on to my dearest friends, this book is both inspirational and educational. My highest recommendation.

Economic Democracy the Political Struggle of the Twenty-First Century: The Political Struggle of the ...

10 reviews
J. W. Smith

1stBooks Library, 2002

Review of Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the
A professor of economics once told me that "mainstream economics is 95% ideology and only 5% social science." This wonderful book by J.W. Smith shows why that is true. I found it utterly complelling and could not put it down. By exposing the macro-economic mechanisms of the past five centuries, Smith blows neo-liberal ideology right out of the water. This book should be required reading ...

The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought

14 reviews
JERRY Z. MULLER, 2002

A suberb intellectual history of Western economic theories
"The Mind and the Market" is certainly a rare bird: a 400-page tract of intellectual history that manages to be lucid and fascinating, informative and persuasive. It is not a historical chronicle per se; instead it is a chronological sampling of biographical profiles of major and minor thinkers and how they viewed, with admiration and mistrust, capitalism and the "free market." Muller ...

Compassionate Capitalism

12 reviews
Rich DeVos

Plume, 1994

A Book The Country Should Read
This book was written by one of the most prominent businessmen in the world. He and his partner started with just an idea, as with many other large corporations we are familiar with, and turned it into one of the only debt free companies in the U.S.. Producing billions of anual revenue. Rich Devos has a huge heart and he is more generous than most, for he is willing to share with the world ...

Great Giveaway, The: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, ...

11 reviews
David E. Fitch

Baker Books, 2005

Heated but Thoughtful
This biting critique of the modern American church has basically lifted the veil off the capitalistic, consumeristic, numbers-oriented megachurches. David Fitch, Pastor of a church just 20 minutes from the headlining, 10,000 member Willow Creek Community Church, levels a pretty harsh attack on the big churches. While there are positive suggestions for alternative church models at the end of ...

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

15 reviews
John McMillan

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Finally, a reasonable, non-ideological book about markets
I had never expected to give a 5-star review to a book about markets. But this book is a very even-handed description, favoring a case-by-case approach to "market design". Government is neither all bad nor all good, and markets are neither all good nor all bad, in this view. Nor does McMillan wrap markets in the mantles of politics and/or religion, a la Milton Friedman, George Gilder and others. ...

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