Capitalism Caroline O’Connell writer Rachel Dempsey

writer Rachel Dempsey

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A Physician on the Nile contains great diversity in a small compass

Samuel Gregg examines economic culture—the values and institutions that inform our economic priorities—to explain how European economic life has drifted in the direction of what Alexis de Tocqueville called “soft despotism

Drawing on ethnographic encounters and conversations in mining regions

Capitalism Caroline O’Connell writer Rachel DempseyVirtually everyoneleft, right, and centerbelieves that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are