Lexington Books
Pages: 360
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-0381-4 • Paperback • August 2002 • $56.99 • (£44.00)
978-0-7391-5280-5 • eBook • August 2002 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Edward W. Younkins is Professor of Accountancy and Business Administration at Wheeling Jesuit University. He is the editor of Michael Novak's Three in One: Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Capitalism and Morality
Chapter 2 Individuals, Communities, and the State
Chapter 3 Individual Rights
Chapter 4 Individuals and Communities
Chapter 5 Civil Society
Chapter 6 The Common Good
Chapter 7 The State
Chapter 8 Personal Flourishing and Happiness
Chapter 9 Ownership
Chapter 10 Private Property
Chapter 11 Contract
Chapter 12 Work
Chapter 13 The Labor Union
Chapter 14 The Corporation
Chapter 15 Business
Chapter 16 Progress
Chapter 17 Entrepreneurship
Chapter 18 Technology
Chapter 19 Governance
Chapter 20 Justice
Chapter 21 Law
Chapter 22 Corporate Governance
Chapter 23 Obstacles to a Free Society
Chapter 24 Collectivist Thinkers
Chapter 25 Cultural Relativism
Chapter 26 Communitarianism
Chapter 27 Environmentalism
Chapter 28 Public Education
Chapter 29 Taxation
Chapter 30 Protectionism
Chapter 31 Antitrust Laws
Chapter 32 Government Regulation
Chapter 33 Inflation and Money
Chapter 34 In Retrospect and Prospect
Chapter 35 Conceptual Foundations Revisited
Chapter 36 The Future
Chapter 37 Appendix: A Reader's Guide to Free-Market Organizations and Periodicals
Capitalism rests on a moral foundation, like the rest of civilization. Edward W. Younkins has done an extraordinary job of explicating that foundation, in an impressive and much-needed work.....
— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mises Institute
The book magisterially fulfills its promise. It is well-written and concise, and it presents all the fundamental arguments that anybody who supports the capitalist system should know about.....
— Martin Masse
Edward Youkins has made a real contribution to our understanding of the moral underpinnings of the economic sstem that accompanies our way of life. And he has done so just when we needed it most.....
— Yuval Levin, editor, National Affairs
Capitalism and Commerce is far more than its altogether too modest subtitle Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise indicates. Yes, the book covers this topic with thoroughness, eloquence, and wisdom, but it also touches upon just about every question or criticism that anyone has ever made about the morality or practicality of free enterprise. . . . This book is a tour de force presentation of the case for economic freedom....
— Walter Block, Loyola University, New Orleans
[Capitalism and Commerce] is a powerful, scholarly antidote to all the shallow, politically-correct business bashing that is so prevalent in academe and the media.....
— Thomas J. DiLorenzo