Why think about capitalism? --
The Greek and Christian traditions --
Hobbes's challenge to the traditions --
Dutch commerce and national power --
Capitalism and toleration : Voltaire --
Abundance or equality : Voltaire vs. Rousseau --
Seeing the invisible hand : Adam Smith --
Smith on merchants, politicians, workers --
Smith on the problems of commercial society --
Smith on moral and immoral capitalism --
Conservatism and advanced capitalism : Burke --
Conservatism and periphery capitalism : Möser --
Hegel on capitalism and individuality --
Hamilton, List, and the case for protection --
De Tocqueville on capitalism in America --
Marx and Engels : the Communist Manifesto --
Marx's Capital and the degradation of work --
Matthew Arnold on capitalism and culture --
Individual and community : Tönnies vs. Simmel --
The German debate over rationalization --
Cultural sources of capitalism : Max Weber --
Schumpeter on innovation and resentment --
Lenin's critique : Imperialism and war --
Fascists on capitalism : Freyer and Schmitt --
Mises and Hayek on irrational socialism --
Schumpeter on capitalism's self-destruction --
The Rise of welfare-state capitalism --
Pluralism as limit to social justice : Hayek --
Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique --
Contradictions of postindustrial society --
The family under capitalism --
Tensions with democracy : Buchanan and Olson --
End of communism, new era of globalization --
Capitalism and nationalism : Ernest Gellner --
The varieties of capitalism
Intrinsic tensions in capitalism.
