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Article: The Idea of Capitalism - A historian helps clarify the great historical European debate on market capitalism.(The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought)(Book Review)
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- The World and I
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- April 1, 2003
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David Harsanyi writes from New York City.
Book Info:THE MIND AND THE MARKET
Capitalism in Modern European Thought
Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher:New York: Knopf, 2002
448 pp., $30.00
Since when has history been written by the losers?
When Soviet communism fell ignominiously at the end of the twentieth century, a war of economic and political ideas came to an abrupt end, and the domination of globalization and market capitalism began. Nevertheless, when the BBC conducted a series of polls in 1999 asking people to name the greatest men and women of the millennium, the people's choice for "greatest thinker" was the father of communism, Karl Marx. ...