Article: Fixing Capitalism Bit by Bit To Build Us All a Better World.(FinancialObserver)

Byline: Christopher Bray

The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, by William Greider. Simon and Schuster, 366 pages, $28.

Not long into the last century, Cicero McClure, a farmer in Western Pennsylvania, started a second job as a night watchman. After a hard day of plowing and tilling the fields, he would take himself off to the electric-power substation it was his nightly duty to guard. Before he began putting in these phenomenally long hours, McClure had been a director of a local community bank he'd also invested in. The bank folded during the great panic of 1907, and McClure took the night job so that he could repay the depositors ...

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