Traces the history of the capitalist idea in western thought, from its origins in the ancient classical world and medieval Christianity to its flowering from 1700 to the present day, revealing how philosophers and theorists have influenced the ways in which the market can affect society and analyzin[...]
Why did some of the 'best and brightest' of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their 'radical conservatism' contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their ex[...]
At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political[...]
The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism,[...]