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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism 26 reviews
John C. Bogle
Yale University Press, 2005
Nobel Prize Material--Final Review
+ Exellent, details and outlines the problem with the stock market.
+ Very academic, excellent but suited for investment amateurs
+ He's got it right
+ About What We Investors Don't Know
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics)34 reviews
Max Weber
Routledge, 2001
interesting
+ Anatomy of the Beast
+ What Made Capitalism Tick?
+ The definitive introductory text in Modernization theory
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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition 124 reviews
Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Great book, life changing reading!
+ Read it twice
+ Friedman is best on Economics this is a must read
Reading this book gave me a whole new perspective about life, economics and individual responsibility. It's a must for everyone, even if you are not a student of economics.
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Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 3 reviews
James Fulcher
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Thought Provoking
+ Excellent but omits ecological challenges
Teaching capitalism in today's world is like describing water to a fish; we are surrounded by it, can't live without it and are unaware of the alternatives. Most have never experienced the depression, many have forgotten the days when communism was actually a threat. We are blind to the ...
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The Firm, the Market, and the Law14 reviews
R. H. Coase
University Of Chicago Press, 1990
Coase is certainly worthy of his Nobel
+ New Institutional Economics
+ The Brilliance of Ronald Coase...
+ Comentario del prof. González Vázquez
+ Fifty years of Coase
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Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century6 reviews
Jeffry A. Frieden
W. W. Norton, 2006
Globalization 2.0
+ fantastic book
+ Almost tempted to give it a miss
+ Bottom Line: Unfettered Capitalism is Destructive, Need Government
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber5 reviews
Anthony Giddens
Cambridge University Press, 1973
Seeing master through master
+ A substantial reinforcement of disciplinary interests
+ Great Book for Sociology Theory Students
+ Great Book!
+ As good an analysis as there is... even 30 years later
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The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered30 reviews
George Soros
PublicAffairs, 1998
Economic theory has misrepresented how markets behave
+ The hobo Philosopher
+ "policeman to the world"... on second thought...
Reflexivity, is the two way interaction between thinking and reality. Reality is not separate from thinking. Reflexivity is acceptance that there is a reality and we are a part of that reality. Reflexity, strength of its statement is contingent on their impact.
Fallibility means there is a ...
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The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success61 reviews
Rodney Stark
Random House, 2005
This book is a victory for reason
+ Top notch
+ The Christian Foundation for Western Success
+ The Victory of Reason
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 3 (Penguin Classics)4 reviews
Karl Marx
Penguin Classics, 1993
Impressive and worthy read!
+ Beautiful
+ An Essential Text (if a bit difficult for the lay reader)
At the final of this extensive and tough read, the rewards are worth the effort. This third volume of Das Kapital concludes Marx attempt to describe how a Capitalist economic and society works. The most difficult part of it is to follow the concepts and ideas that compose the subject and how the ...
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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce5 reviews
Deirdre N. McCloskey
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
Heartfelt clearheadedness
+ 3.5-McCloskey wants to mix University of Chicago,Benthamite Utilitarian economics with Aristotle,Aquinas,and Smith-It won't work
+ Very interesting but flawed
+ Bourgeois Virtues?
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The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism5 reviews
Michael Novak
Madison Books, 2000
Brilliant, provocative, learned, faithful
+ The Greater Separation of Powers
+ Breaking new ground
+ A Prayer of Capitalism
+ The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism by Michael Novak
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Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult ...19 reviews
Stuart L. Hart
Wharton School Publishing, 2005
A Classic
+ Most relevant book in today's economy
+ Putting a new paradigm to work
+ Capitalism and the New World Economy
+ What Capitalism Could Accomplish
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy18 reviews
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Harper Perennial, 1962
Liz Rogers' Review of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
+ A masterpiece regarding the themes of socialism's rise and capitalism's decay and decline
+ Good Analysis, Bad Predictions
+ Not by bread alone
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Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism4 reviews
New Press, 2006
very very useful academic perspective
+ THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM MUST STOP HERE
+ Good Insights!
Neither a polemic nor a whitewash, this book is critical yet strives to be fair. Its perspective is predominantly historical and a bit too academic, but it is well written and simply fascinating.
Sam Walton was a natural salesman, passionate about building his retail business. When founded ...
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal113 reviews
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, ...
Signet, 1986
An Excellent Collection of Essays on Ayn Rand's Political Views
+ Excellent! Brilliantly makes the moral case for Capitalism
+ An interesting read, but Rand is her own school rather than a founding figure in American Conservative Thought.
+ At Whose Expense?
+ Capitalism is Right
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy51 reviews
Thomas Frank
Anchor, 2001
Solid thoughtful, nails our national policy failures in a big way
+ revealing
+ Very Worthwhile
+ Enlightening romp through a decade of idiocy
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else144 reviews
Hernando De Soto
Basic Books, 2003
First Rate Analysis of Poverty and Development
+ Property Rights are key to ending poverty
+ A Marxist take
+ The Mystery of Capital -- It's Really No Mystery
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Essentials of Comparative Politics (The Norton series in world politics) 1 review
Patrick H. O'Neil
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Good services
Like promised, item was delivered in good condition and on time. Thank you.
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History and Class Consciousness4 reviews
Georg Lukács
The MIT Press, 1972
The Root of Critical Theory
+ The Greatest Philosophical Work Inspired by the Russian Revolution
+ replay for unchange kapitalism world
The grand and celebrated critiques of capitalistic techno-rationality that emerged from the Frankfurt school are all rooted in the dialectical emphasis of Lukacs. Hegelian notions of reification and alienation that Lukacs resurrected even showed up in radically mutated forms in French ...
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