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The Economics of Success

12 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Capitalism
  • ISBN-13: 9781908096906
  • Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
    Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
  • By Eamonn Butler
  • Price: AUD $34.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/04/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]Economics [KC]
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In this new myth busting book Director of the Adam Smith Institute Eamon Butler describes how it is by looking to the markets, rather than to the politicians, that we will return to prosperity. Butler decribes how the free market harnesses self-interest and punishes greed, how government intervention raises everybody's costs and how it is capitalism - not socialism - that has made Britain rich. In twelve eyeopening chapters, Successful Economics illustrates how capitalism is the hero of its own story.
Eamonn Butler is co-head of the London-based Adam Smith Institute, one of the world's foremost free-market think tanks. He writes for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, and other publications. He lives in Cambridge and previously published the bestelling The Rotten State of Britain.
1. Recession - Only markets can pull a country out of recession 2. Jobs - Why 'austerity' helps to create jobs. 3. Prices - Why markets keep prices down 4. Banking - Increasing regulation reduces competition 5. Fairness - Why 'social justice' is a misnomer 6. Greed - Capitalism harnesses self-interest but punishes greed 7. Power - Businesses' power to help the economy is far more effective than government's power 8. World - Capitalism rather than aid will help developing countries 9. Politics - Politics are dominated by special interests 10. Ideology - Capitalism is the world's most co-operative system 11. Prosperity - Capitalism has made us prosper 12. Conclusion - Capitalism is a social and moral system
Praise: "At last, someone who can explain how we got into this mess and what we need to do to get out of it." Daniel Hannan Previous praise for The Rotten State of Britain 'Lucid.' Martin van der Weyer Sunday Telegraph , Book of the Week 'You need to read this.' Lord Forsyth, former Scotland Secretary 'A no holds barred critique of the achievements of New Labour' Evening Standard 'Timely and worrying - a devastating report card.' Professor Trentmann, Sunday Express 'Jaw-dropping.' Catholic Herald
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