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Title

The politically incorrect guide to capitalism / Robert P. Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Robert P. (Robert Patrick), 1976-

Publication

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 206 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Politically incorrect guide

Subjects

• United States > Economic conditions
• United States > Economic policy
• Capitalism > United States
• Free enterprise

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.

Contents

• Quiz : are you a capitalist pig? -- ch. 1. Capitalism, profits, and entrepreneurs -- So what is capitalism anyway? -- Laissez-faire versus regulation -- Free to starve? -- Mass production for the masses -- Central planning versus the "anarchy" of production -- We won the Cold War! Or did we? -- ch. 2. The price is right (by definition) -- Prices are signals -- The big fuss over "Big oil" -- Running out of gas -- Rent control)or, How to destroy a neighborhood) -- ch. 3. Labor pains -- Baseball players make more than teachers! Where are our priorities? -- Even bad CEOs deserve the big bucks -- Child labor laws are unnecessary -- The minimum wage (or, How to create unemployment) -- Unions hurt the working man -- Give me a break! -- ch. 4. The case against anti-discrimination laws -- The free market's "racist fee" -- Discrimination is bad for business -- The "discriminating" customer -- Private property and the freedom of association -- There's nothing "affirmative" about affirmative action -- So every thing's hunky-dory?
• ch. 5. Slavery : product of capitalism or government? -- Government protects slavery -- Slavery was declining before state interference -- Slavery : immoral, yes, but also inefficient! -- The rising price of slaves -- If slavery is so inefficient, then why did it exist at all? -- ch. 6. How capitalism will save the environment -- Rhinos versus cows -- Conservation for whom? -- We'll cross that bridge when we get to it -- The ultimate bet : Ehrlich bombs -- Recycle? Or dump? -- The pollution of activist government -- ch. 7. Ensuring safety: the market or big brother? -- There's always a trade-off -- Market safety -- The regulators : third-party guarantors -- Is there a doctor in the house? -- Safety : taking it to the streets -- Good intentions with deadly consequences -- ch. 8. Settling debts -- Deficits don't cause inflation -- Deficits crowd out private investment -- Raising taxes isn't "responsible" -- Burdening our grandchildren? -- Reagan's record -- Clinton's budget.
• ch. 9. Money and banking -- Barter is barbarous -- Nobody invented money -- We're from the government and we're here to help -- Printing more money makes prices rise -- Banking basics -- "Wildcat" banking -- ch. 10. Growing pains -- The business cycle : courtesy of the government -- The "progressive" Herbert Hoover -- The New Deal didn't fix the Depression -- Did World War II get us out of the Depression? -- The whole is not the sum of the parts -- ch. 11. Bread and circuses : popular government programs -- NASA : needlessly dangerous -- Outer space : too big for the private sector? -- Capitalists : just out for a buck? -- LBJ's war on taxpayers -- Sacrosanct Social Security -- ch. 12. Running government like a business -- Profits versus bureaucracy -- Amtrak -- Going postal over poor service -- Public utilities -- Government in a jam -- ch. 13. Trusting the feds on antitrust -- The myth of the robber barons -- The infamous case of Standard Oil -- The case against antitrust -- The case for Microsoft.
• ch. 14. Trade wars -- Tariffs are taxes on Americans -- Protecting jobs? -- Classical wisdom -- Debunking the deficit -- The trade deficit : follow the money -- ch. 15. Making money in the global village -- Manufacturing a crisis -- Outsourcing destroys jobs? -- Outsourcing makes America richer -- The high-tech sector : another phony crisis -- Capital export is a capital idea -- We're from the world government and we're here to help -- ch. 16. The investor class : in other words, you and me -- Interest : sooner is better than later -- The importance of middlemen -- The farsighted speculator -- Futures and other derivatives : to each according to his ability -- Raiders of the lost corporation -- A twelve-step plan for understanding the free market -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Call Number

JBE 08-552

ISBN

• 9781596985049 (pbk.)
• 1596985046 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007001846

OCLC

79860752

Author

Murphy, Robert P. (Robert Patrick), 1976-

Title

The politically incorrect guide to capitalism / Robert P. Murphy.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.

Series

Politically incorrect guide

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.

Research Call Number

JBE 08-552