The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Michael Novak

doi:10.5771/9781461662853

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...a major work for our times. —Irving Kristol, The Public Interest

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Copyright year: 1990
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8191-7823-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6285-3
Publisher: Madison Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 460
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
1. 1: The Historical Achievements of Democratic Capitalism No access
2. 2: From Practice to Theory No access
1. I: What Is Democratic Capitalism? No access
2. 1. 1: Unitary Order No access
  2. 2: Not by Free Enterprise Alone No access
  3. 3: Pluralism in Politics No access
  4. 4: The Attempt to Christianize the System No access
3. III: Emergent Probability No access
4. 1. 1: Freedom and Sin No access
  2. 2: The Doctrine of Unintended Consequences No access
  3. 3: Virtuous Self-Interest No access
5. 1. 1: Time and Intelligence No access
  2. 2: The Market No access
  3. 3: An Invisible Hand? No access
  4. 4: Profit and Commercial Values No access
  5. 5: The Zero-Sum Society No access
6. 1. 1: The Forgotten Theory No access
  2. 2: Community in Practice No access
7. 1. 1: "Das Anglo-Saxon Problem" No access
  2. 2: The Assault on the Bourgeoisie No access
8. 1. 1: The Economic Order No access
  2. 2: The Political Order No access
  3. 3: The Moral-Cultural Order No access
9. 1. 1: The Political System No access
  2. 2: The Economic System No access
  3. 3: The Moral-Cultural System No access
1. X: The Transformation of Socialism No access
2. 1. 1: What Went Wrong? No access
  2. 2: Definition by Contrast No access
  3. 3: From Economics to Politics No access
  4. 4: The Utility of the Rich No access
3. 1. 1: Income Distribution No access
  2. 2: The Economic Situation of Blacks No access
4. XIII: The Transnational Corporation No access
1. 1. 1: A Theology of Economics No access
  2. 2: The Bias Against Democratic Capitalism No access
2. 1. 1: Historical Development No access
  2. 2: Christian Socialism in Europe No access
  3. 3: Moltmann's Economics No access
  4. 4: Moltmann's "Socialism" No access
3. 1. 1: Do Developed Nations Cause Poverty? No access
  2. 2: Latin Catholic Economics No access
  3. 3: The Center and the Periphery No access
4. XVII: Liberation Theology No access
5. 1. 1: Dependency? No access
  2. 2: The Success of Latin America No access
  3. 3: The Failure of Latin America No access
  4. 4: The Crux No access
6. 1. 1: The Early Years No access
  2. 2: The Lessons of Experience No access
  3. 3: "Capitalistic-Democratic Culture" No access
  4. 4: The Failures of Democratic Socialism No access
7. 1. 1: The Importance of Ideals No access
  2. 2: Six Theological Doctrines No access
  3. 3: Under God No access
Notes No access Pages 361 - 412
Acknowledgments No access Pages 413 - 414
Afterword for the 1991 Edition No access Pages 415 - 440
Index No access Pages 441 - 460