The Capitalist Manifesto

Categories: Business & Money, Politics & Social Sciences

Marx and Engels observed in The Communist Manifesto that free markets had created more prosperity and innovation in a short time than all previous generations combined. Today global capitalism is blamed for inequality and climate change, and populists on the left and right call for trade barriers, industrial policy and nationalization. In The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, Swedish historian Johan Norberg makes the case that global capitalism has lifted bil…

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