ContentsRepublic, Bk. II.369-374, VIII.550-556
Laws, Bk. V.742-745, XI.913-920
Nicomachean Ethics, I.4-5, 9-10, V.5
1.4 Aristotle, Politics, I.8-11
De Officiis (On Duties), I.14, III.15-17
1.6 Ovid, “The Myth of King Midas” in Metamorphoses, Bk. XI.81-145
Moralia
Parallel Lives, §9-11
The Old Testament: Deuteronomy 15:1-11, 23:19-20, Proverbs 11:28, 13:11
The Apocrypha: Sirach 26:29-30, 31:1-11, 38:24-34
The New Testament: Matthew 6:19-33, 19:16-20:16, 22:16-22, 25:13-30,
John 2:13-16, Acts 2:42-47, ,4:31-35, I Timothy 6:9-10, II Thessalonians 3:7-10
2.2 Benedict of Nursia, ch. 48, “Of Daily Manual Labor,” in The Rule of St. Benedict
2.3 Qur’an: Surah 2:261-281, Surah 4:29-40, Surah 9:34-35, Surah 102:1-8
Didascalicon, Bk. 2, chs. 20 (“Mechanical Arts”) and 23 (“Commerce”)
The Lives of St. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano XXXV.65–XXXVIII.68
Summa Theologica, IIa IIae Q. 66 Art. 1-2, Q. 77 Art. 1-4
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, ch. 5, §1-2, 5-6, 8-9, 14
Treatise on Merchandise, bk. 3
3.2 Thomas More, Utopia, final pages
3.3 Martin Luther, “On Trading and Usury”
The Rights of War and Peace, I: v-xi
4.2 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 13
Political Maxims of the State of Holland, chs. 1, 14-15
Second Treatise of Civil Government, ch. 5, “Of Property”
Fable of the Bees
Philosophical Letters
The Spirit of the Laws, XX.1-2
Political Discourses
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men, pt. 2
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, V.2.7-16
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, I.ii
6.2 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2, bk. 2, pt. 2, chs. 2, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14
What is Property?, selections
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The Law, selections
Walden
Self Help ch. 1, paras. 1-9
6.9 Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth”
PART SEVEN: The Twentieth Century
The Philosophy of Money, ch. 4
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Gift
7.5 Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, ch. 1
Atlas Shrugged, pt. II, ch. 2
7.8 Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 13, 1970
A Theory of Justice, ch. 5, §41
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pt. II, ch. 7
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, pt. 1, ch. 1.
Two Cheers for Capitalism
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