Product Description: A sensible solution to getting our economy back on track Pessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps...read more

Product Description: Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition...read more

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Lists recent events that identify serious flaws in American capitalism, noting the price of affluence on families and the environment, calling for a fundamental realignment of power, and sharing examples of beneficial corporate practices. By the author of Who Will Tell the People? Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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