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Capitalism

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here on page 1: several quotations • links books about capitalism 'Das Kapital' from 1900 from 1980 from 2000 on page 2: top of page from 2005 • from 2010 fiction other media

“Capitalism is the creation of jobs and products and services.”
— G.E. Nordell

WMail ezine Issue #40: "Paleo-Capitalism" [Feb 2004] essay by G.E. Nordell

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“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959]

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
— Abraham Lincoln [1809-65]

“Fascism is capitalism in decay.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [1870-1924]

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” — gangster Al Capone [1899-1947]

“Capitalism is more important than democracy.” — Stephen Moore, senior economic adviser to the Trump campaign, 2018

“The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on
honest, straightforward greed.” — Joel Achenbach

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L i n k s
Natural Capitalism
Fixing Capitalism: Prosperity, Liberty For All
National Association of Securities Professionals [est. 1985]
National Association of Securities Professionals - New York Chapter
The Museum of Capitalism [opened 6/2017] in Oakland, California

Conscious Capitalism, Inc. [est. 2009] based in NYC
Conscious Capitalism - Chicago Chapter [est. 2014]  { website broken 2019 }
Conscious Capitalism - Metro Denver Chapter

Capitalists 'Capitalism Is Freedom!' [est. 2009] on Facebook {fascist trolls}

'Working Minds' philosophy website
Francisco's 'Money' speech from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

Working Minds Essay #78: "The Robber Barons"
WMail ezine Essay #40: "Paleo-Capitalism"
WMail ezine Essay #23: "The Class System In America"
WMail ezine Essay #18: "The Stock Market Casino"

Maison d'Ętre Philosophy Bookstore's Wall Street Page
{ the Capitalism and Wall Street pages were combined until mid-2015, when it grew overlarge and they were split }

Maison d'Ętre Philosophy Bookstore's Economics Film Festival Pages

Maison d'Ętre Philosophy Bookstore's U.S. Federal Reserve Page

'G.O.P. 2008 Economic Meltdown' Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

The Center on Capitalism and Society [est. 2002]
420 W. 118th Street at Columbia University in New York City
The Earth Institute/C.C.S. entry at Wikipedia

"Putting Integrity Into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach" [May 2017] by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen 12-page article/paper published in the journal "Capitalism and Society", Volume 12, Issue 1 abstract & full text of the paper 'Integrity as we define it (or the lack thereof) on the part of individuals or organizations has enormous economic implications for value, productivity, and quality of life. Indeed, integrity is a factor of production as important as labor, capital, and technology.' publisher is The Center on Capitalism and Society [est. 2002]

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Books  About  Capitalism

“The word 'capitalism' does not appear at all in Adam Smith's 1776 ground-breaking
900-page Wealth of Nations.” — Natylie Baldwin

http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Third-Edition/dp/0061561614/
http://www.amazon.com/Protestant-Ethic-Spirit-Capitalism/dp/0199747253/
http://www.amazon.com/Protestant-Ethic-Spirit-Capitalism-Third/dp/1891487434/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Enigma-Capital-Crises-Capitalism/dp/0199836841/

Recent  Additions

		"The Code of Capital: How The Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" [2019] by Katharina Pistor author explores the various ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are selectively coded to protect and reproduce private wealth, painting a troubling portrait of the pervasive global nature of the code, the people who shape it, and the governments that enforce it "A must-read." — economist Thomas Piketty Kindle Edition from Princeton Univ Press [5/2019] for $9.99 Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/2020] for $19.86 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2019] for $25.99
		"The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy" [1996] 'essential text' by J.K. Gibson-Graham Kindle Edition from Univ Minnesota Press [2006 edition] for $14.75 Univ Minnesota Press 9x6 pb [3/2006] for $20.00 Univ Minnesota Press 9x6 pb [3/2006] out of print/many used Wiley-Blackwell 9½x6½ hardcover [9/96] out of print/used
		"The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society In The Gilded Age" [orig 1982; rev 2007] by Alan Trachtenberg Hill & Wang Publng 25th Anniv Edition 8¼x5½ pb [2/2007] for $17.00 Hill & Wang Publng 8x5¼ hardcover [3/82] out of print/used
		"The Reckless Decade: America In The 1890s" [1995] by H.W. Brands Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $13.34 St. Martins Press 9¾x6¾ hardcover [12/95] out of print/used

"Capital (Das Kapital)" [1867 & 1885 & 1894]
by Karl Heinrich Marx [1818-83] & Friedrich Engels [1820-95]
book entry at Wikipedia

		1886 edition, Foreword by Friedrich Engels Kindle Edition from Wallachia Publrs [11/2015] for 99˘ {sic} CreateSpace 9x6 pb [11/2014] for $14.99
		2007 Collector's Edition, Edited & Introduction by Serge Levinsky Synergy International 9x6 hardcover [9/2007] for $41.75
		Translation by Samuel Moore [2011] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2016] for $1.50 {sic} CreateSpace 10x7 pb [3/2011] for $9.95
		"Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory" [1986] by Duncan K. Foley 'a brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory', covering every subject of Marx's three volumes Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/86] for $30.08 Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/86] out of print/40+ used
		"Marx's Capital Illustrated" [2014] by David N. Smith, Illustrated by Phil Evans A visual treatment of Marx's theories, plus their historic impact all the way to today's globalized economies. Haymarket Books 8¼x5¼ pb [7/2014] for $14.04

"The Servile State" [1912] by Hilaire Belloc This book makes the case for the natural instability of pure Capitalism. Belloc argues that attempts to reform Capitalism lead to an economy where state regulation has emasculated it, removing its essential freedom – the effects of Socialist doctrine on Capitalist society produces a third thing different from either of its two begetters, an endpoint that Belloc calls 'The Servile State'. Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2008] for 99˘ {sic} CreateSpace 9x6 pb [11/2008] for $7.95 Cosimo Classics 8½x5½ hardcover [11/2007] for $22.95 book entry at Wikipedia • available as free online etext at Internet Archive

		"The Accumulation of Capital" [1913 classic] by revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg [1871-1919] Routledge 7¾x5 pb [4/2003] for $15.80 book entry at Wikipedia
		"The Folklore of Capitalism" [1937 classic] by Thurman W. Arnold Beard Group 8x5 pb [12/2000] for $34.95 Greenwood hardcover [6/80] out of print/used
		"Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" [1942 classic] by Joseph A. Schumpeter [1883-1950] Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [11/2008] for $10.87 Harper Perennial 3rd edition pb [12/62] out of print/many used Peter Smith Publng 8x5½ hardcover [6/84] out of print/used author entry at Wikipedia
		"American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power" [1952 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [1/93] for $24.95 M.E. Sharpe hardcover [1/80] out of print/used
		"The Capitalist Manifesto" [1958] by Louis O. Kelso & Mortimer J. Adler Literary Licensing, LLC 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $30.56 Literary Licensing, LLC 9x6 hardcover [6/2011] for $44.06 Random House 8½x5¾ hardcover [1958] out of print/used
		"The New Capitalists: A Proposal To Free Economic Growth From The Slavery of Savings" [1961] by Louis O. Kelso & Mortimer J. Adler Random House 9x6½ hardcover [1961] out of print/used
		"Capitalism and Freedom" [1962 classic] by Milton Friedman Univ of Chicago Press 8x5¼ pb [6/72] for $12.00 Univ of Chicago Press pb [11/2002] for $13.00 Univ of Chicago Press hardcover [11/2002] for $40.00 Blackstone UNABR audio [12/93] 5 tapes for $39.95 online text of Preface (1982)
		"The Limits of American Capitalism" [1966] by Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005] Torchbooks 7¾x5 pb [6/67] out of print/used Harper & Row hardcover [1966] out of print/used
		"Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" [1967 classic] by Ayn Rand [1905-82] N.A.L. pb [8/84] for $6.39 Blackstone UNABR audio [11/2000] for $69.95 Blackstone audio CD [11/2000] for $96.00
		"The Future of Capitalism" [1967] by the National Industrial Conference Board Collier Macmillan, Ltd. hardcover [10/67] out of print/used
		TIME Magazine "Can Capitalism Survive?" cover article [July 1975] featuring Adam Smith [1723-90] TIME Inc. weekly issue [7/1975] out of print/used read full text of the article at TIME Inc. website
		"Can Capitalism Survive?: Creative Destruction & The Future of The Global Economy" [orig 1978] by Joseph A. Schumpeter Harper Perennial mass pb [9/2009] for $8.00
		"Capitalism For Beginners: A Pantheon Documentary Comic Book" [1981] by Robert Lekachman; illustrated by Borin Van Loon Knopf pb [5/81] out of print/used
		"Capitalism and A New Social Order: The Republican Vision of The 1790s" [1984] speech delivered by Joyce Appleby at the Anson G. Phelps Lectureship on Early American History at New York University New York Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [8/94] for $16.92 New York Univ Press hardcover [1984] out of print/used
		"The Nature and Logic of Capitalism" [1985] by Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005] W.W. Norton mass pb [9/86] for $10.20 W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/85] out of print/used
		"Capitalism and Individualism: Reframing The Argument For A Free Society" [1990] by Tibor R. Machan [1939-2016] L.L. Christenson Publng 9x6 pb [6/2002] out of print/used Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6 hardcover [8/90] out of print/used
		"21st Century Capitalism" [1993] by Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005] W.W. Norton pb [8/94] for $9.71 W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/93] out of print/used
		"The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World" [1996] New York Times bestseller by Lester C. Thurow [1938-2016] Penguin Books 7¾x5¼ pb [4/97] out of print/used Wm. Morrow & Co. 9x6 hardcover [1996] for $62.00
		"Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics" [1996] by economist George Reisman Jameson Books big 11½x8¾ hardcover [11/96] for $95.00
		"The Transformation of Capitalist Society" [1997] by Zellig S. Harris [1909-1992] Rowman & Littlefield 9¼x6¼ pb [1/97] for $29.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9½x6¼ hardcover [1/97] for $96.00
		"Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed In Three Industrial Revolutions" [1998] by Thomas K. McCraw Harvard Univ Press 9x7 pb [1/98] for $35.09 Harvard Univ Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used
		"Capitalism's World Disorder: Working Class Politics At The Millennium" [1999] by Jack Barnes Pathfinder Press 8¼x5¼ pb [3/99] for $24.00 Pathfinder Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [3/99] for $65.00
		"Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution" [1999 bestseller] by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins • official website Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [2007 edition] for $12.99 Back Bay Books/US Green Building Council 9¼x6 pb [10/2000] for $16.36 Earthscan Ltd 8½x5½ pb [4/2010] for $24.95 Earthscan Ltd 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/99] out of print/used Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [9/99] out of print/used 2001 E.F. Schumacher Lecture by Amory Lovins on 'Natural Capitalism' 43-page Kindle Edition from Schumacher Center [2001 edition] for 99˘
		"Capitalism And Its Economics: A Critical History" [2000] by Douglas Dowd Pluto Press 9x6 pb [9/2004] for $27.95 Pluto Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $85.00
		"Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest And The Facts That Support It" [2002] by Craig Biddle A lucid and elegant discussion of the principles, values, and virtues that are essen-tial to human life and happiness, defining and defending the social & political conditions required for people to live together as civilized beings. His conclusion: the essence of moral virtue defines laissez-faire capitalism as the only moral social system. Kindle Edition from Glen Allen Press [2002 edition] for $9.95 Glen Allen Press 8½x5½ pb [2002] for $12.95 author's official website
		"Organizing America: Wealth, Power & The Origins of Corporate Capitalism" [2002] by Charles Perrow Princeton Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [3/2005] for $12.89 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2002] for $52.50
		"The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism & The Death of Democracy" [2002] by Noreena Hertz "One of the best books of the year." — The Sunday Times of London HarperBusiness pb [9/2003] for $9.93 Free Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/many used
		"After Capitalism" [2002] by David Schweickart revised version of "Against Capitalism" [1993] Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [6/2002] for $23.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9¼x6 hardcover [6/2002] for $96.75 [sic] author's Loyola University Chicago faculty homepage
		"Fixing Capitalism: Toward The Next Step In The Evolution of Economics" [2002] by Jonathan Carr Lulu.com 2nd Edition 9x6 pb [3/2011] for $17.96 Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [12/2002] for $17.15 Xlibris 8½x5½ hardcover [12/2002] out of [print/used official book site
		"Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism" [2003] by William H. Boyer Apex Press 9¼x6 pb [6/2003] for $19.95 Apex Press 9x6 hardcover [6/2003] for $36.94
		"The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths To A Moral Economy" [2003] by William Greider S&S hardcover [9/2003] for $19.60 author website & blog
		"Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" [2004] by James Fulcher Oxford Univ Press mass pb [7/2004] for $9.56

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