- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: University Press of America (21 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0761832211
- ISBN-13: 978-0761832218
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 756,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For Professor Bernstein, there are no limits to what man can achieve. This book unabashedly supports capitalism--the system of individual rights, private property, and pursuit of profit. Every businessman who has earned profit, and the millions of customers who have benefited from business productivity should read this epic to appreciate capitalism's glorious accomplishments that we take for granted. -- Mark S. Rothstein The Capitalist Manifesto is an immensely provocative work that should be read from the halls of academia to the streets of the Middle East. Mr. Bernstein's arguments pack the intellectual firepower to blast socialism back to the Stone Age. This rich book is a triumph in the crusade for liberty and individual rights. -- Jonathan Hoenig This monumental work is a tribute to greatness--the exalted men of the mind who create a world of wealth and prosperity, and the great social system of liberty and individual rights that liberates a nation's mind power. Everyone should read this fascinating book for a clear understanding of capitalism--the system that has doubled our life span, created vast wealth, and generated even vaster opportunities. -- Carl B. Barney The Capitalist Manifesto is the most sophisticated, the most philosophical, indeed, the most brilliant defense of capitalism published in a generation. Bernstein has done what no conservative or libertarian proponent of capitalism has even dared try: to defend it on moral grounds. This book will revolutionize American culture if read by every college student. All in all, a remarkable achievement. -- C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D. Although this book is written for the educated generalist or layperson and the college student, it should be read by everyone--especially by journalists and politicians. Hopefully, it will be adopted as a textbook both here and abroad with foreign editions and translations. Bernstein's seminal work is a triumph in the crusade for freedom and individual rights. We certainly need more books like this. -- Ed Younkins In succinctly presenting the historical-economic facts of 19th century capitalism, Professor Bernstein has performed an act of profound justice. While ably recounting how capitalism became the world's most practical social system, he also explains precisely why this was so: because it was the world's only supremely moral system. -- Richard M. Salsman
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The Capitalist Manifesto defends capitalism as the world's most moral and practical social system. This book is written for the rational mind, whether the reader is a professional intellectual or an intelligent layman. It makes the case for individual rights and freedom in terms intelligible to all rational men.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dr. Bernstein has done a great service to everyone, but particularly the British, in detailing the wonderful achievements of our ancestors, in science, politics and industry, that made Western prosperity possible. Not only does he unearth facts long ignored by school histories regarding the squalid nature of our life before capitalism, and the irreplaceable role of capitalism in the abolition of slavery, he also takes us into the realm of philosophy and explains how the Scottish Enlightenment cradled the Industrial Revolution. He then shows how reason and egoism are prerequisities for a proper human life and how their rejection by modern philosophy has led to the 'Great Disconnect' that we live by today, where capitalists are vilified by the very people who depend on them.
All in all a marvelous work of integration that makes sense of our current situation, where other, narrower writings do not.
All in all a marvelous work of integration that makes sense of our current situation, where other, narrower writings do not.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book promises to lay out an effective case for Laissez-Faire. Sadly it it more of a 'poor mans' version of Ayn Rand's 'Capitalism - The Unknown Ideal.'
While Bernstein's historical examinations do prove interesting some of his conclusions are quite peculiar. To give an example he proposes that removing the minimum wage would result in full employment. This has never been the case and is easily refuted.
While Bernstein's historical examinations do prove interesting some of his conclusions are quite peculiar. To give an example he proposes that removing the minimum wage would result in full employment. This has never been the case and is easily refuted.
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107 of 114 people found the following review helpful
Thorough historical case for Capitalism
3 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
The Capitalist Manifesto particularly excels in its historical analyses of various aspects of the pre- and post-capitalist world. For example, it analyzes in detail the idea that the Industrial Revolution led to a decrease in the standard of living of poor people and shows that the opposite is the case. This book is really a must read for anyone who wants to understand the true history of capitalism, including its intellectual origins in the Enlightenment and its materials results. The polemical sections are also a gem, as the idea that capitalism leads to imperialism, war, and slavery is thoroughly debunked. In addition, the book relies on Ayn Rand's Objectivism as a moral and philosophical framework within which to evaluate and understand capitalism. While the moral justification for capitalism will be familiar ground to Objectivists, Dr. Bernstein keeps the reader engaged with numerous concrete examples. Also, don't miss the appendix, in which the lives of the great industrialists are described in exciting detail.
78 of 87 people found the following review helpful
Everything you ever wanted to know about Capitalism ...
2 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
... but were afraid to ask your liberal economics professors!
Dr. Bernstein has written the book which bridges the gap between Ayn Rand's collection, "Capitalism - The Unknown Ideal," and George Reisman's magnum opus, "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics."
This is a book which is both accessible and inspiring to the layman, authoritative enough for the scholar.
When Bernstein's "The Capitalist Manifesto" becomes a text at even a small percentage of America's schools, socialism/communism/fascism is done for.
Dr. Bernstein has written the book which bridges the gap between Ayn Rand's collection, "Capitalism - The Unknown Ideal," and George Reisman's magnum opus, "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics."
This is a book which is both accessible and inspiring to the layman, authoritative enough for the scholar.
When Bernstein's "The Capitalist Manifesto" becomes a text at even a small percentage of America's schools, socialism/communism/fascism is done for.
50 of 55 people found the following review helpful
The Mind and Body of Capitalism
3 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
What makes The Capitalist Manifesto such a valuable addition to the pro-capitalist literature, is that it targets precisely the existing gap between the practical case for capitalism--provided in abundant detail by historians and economists-and the moral and philosophical case.
The goal of the book is to present an integrated case for capitalism, one that connects the economic and historical facts with the wider moral and philosophical case for capitalism.
That integration is made possible by Bernstein's identification of the unifying principle that explains all of the virtues of capitalism: "Regarding the enormity of capitalism's success, both morally and practically, in different centuries, on far-flung continents, involving a hundred issues, the explanatory principle that will emerge is: capitalism is par excellence the system of liberated human brain power." Capitalism as "the system of the mind" is a theme that is capable of uniting every element of the case for capitalism: its economic mechanisms, its political principles, its history, its heroes, its moral code-all the way down to the epistemology that capitalism encourages and institutionalizes.
Above all, this volume achieves something no other history of capitalism has yet done: it provides the solution to today's cultural and political mind-body dichotomy, showing how the material achievements of capitalism's innovators flow from the highest moral and intellectual ideal: the commitment to the liberation of the individual mind. In doing so, The Capitalist Manifesto makes a valuable addition to the growing foundation for a secular moral case for liberty.
The goal of the book is to present an integrated case for capitalism, one that connects the economic and historical facts with the wider moral and philosophical case for capitalism.
That integration is made possible by Bernstein's identification of the unifying principle that explains all of the virtues of capitalism: "Regarding the enormity of capitalism's success, both morally and practically, in different centuries, on far-flung continents, involving a hundred issues, the explanatory principle that will emerge is: capitalism is par excellence the system of liberated human brain power." Capitalism as "the system of the mind" is a theme that is capable of uniting every element of the case for capitalism: its economic mechanisms, its political principles, its history, its heroes, its moral code-all the way down to the epistemology that capitalism encourages and institutionalizes.
Above all, this volume achieves something no other history of capitalism has yet done: it provides the solution to today's cultural and political mind-body dichotomy, showing how the material achievements of capitalism's innovators flow from the highest moral and intellectual ideal: the commitment to the liberation of the individual mind. In doing so, The Capitalist Manifesto makes a valuable addition to the growing foundation for a secular moral case for liberty.
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