Abstract Many people consider Adam Smith the first economist to describe the functioning of capitalism. In fact, Smith … must be considered less the discoverer of capitalism, but rather as its inventor. The economic laws Smith formulated are …

The primary force that is shaping the global environment is the spread of American‐style capitalism. The collapse of … communism as a viable economic system left in its wake the triumph of capitalism. American‐style capitalism offers two key …

capitalism or socialism or communism”: as long as the yardstick for the comparison remains capitalism of laissez‐faire ; and as … in reality: a variety of capitalism that, having fulfilled the “archaic” act of industrialization, is moving into its …

‐faire capitalism in five different realms: economic development, unionism and minimum wage laws, socialist central planning versus …

appreciation of this work, and considers how Kirzner’s insights might feature in a defense of Capitalism in the post- Socialist …

Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism persists in the popuar imagination as well as the academy. This article illustrates … where Max Weber’s theory contradicts all the available historical evidence concerning the emergence of free economies in the … West. It shows not only where Weber’s theory is unable to account for the emergence of capitalist practices and thinking …

expanding capitalism, empire, and white supremacy. In the school systems set up around the world, the term “civilization” was …

machinations of late capitalism. This is accomplished in order to understand how and why its development currently occupies a place … approach relies on the work of Boltanski and Chiapello's “new spirit of capitalism” to understand the rise of the network and …