TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Robert P.
TI  - The politically incorrect guide to capitalism
T2  - The politically incorrect guide
SN  - 9781596985049
AV  - HB 501 .M88 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, DC, Lanham, MD
PB  - Regnery Pub., Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index; Quiz : are you a capitalist pig? --; ch. 1; Capitalism, profits, and entrepreneurs --; So what is capitalism anyway? --; Laissez-faire versus regulation --; Free to starve? --; Mass production for the masses --; Central planning versus the "anarchy" of production --; We won the Cold War! Or did we? --; ch. 2; The price is right (by definition) --; Prices are signals --; The big fuss over "Big oil" --; Running out of gas --; Rent control)or, How to destroy a neighborhood) --; ch. 3; Labor pains --; Baseball players make more than teachers! Where are our priorities? --; Even bad CEOs deserve the big bucks --; Child labor laws are unnecessary --; The minimum wage (or, How to create unemployment) --; Unions hurt the working man --; Give me a break! --; ch. 4; The case against anti-discrimination laws --; The free market's "racist fee" --; Discrimination is bad for business --; The "discriminating" customer --; Private property and the freedom of association --; There's nothing "affirmative" about affirmative action --; So every thing's hunky-dory?; ch. 5; Slavery : product of capitalism or government? --; Government protects slavery --; Slavery was declining before state interference --; Slavery : immoral, yes, but also inefficient! --; The rising price of slaves --; If slavery is so inefficient, then why did it exist at all? --; ch. 6; How capitalism will save the environment --; Rhinos versus cows --; Conservation for whom? --; We'll cross that bridge when we get to it --; The ultimate bet : Ehrlich bombs --; Recycle? Or dump? --; The pollution of activist government --; ch. 7; Ensuring safety: the market or big brother? --; There's always a trade-off --; Market safety --; The regulators : third-party guarantors --; Is there a doctor in the house? --; Safety : taking it to the streets --; Good intentions with deadly consequences --; ch. 8; Settling debts --; Deficits don't cause inflation --; Deficits crowd out private investment --; Raising taxes isn't "responsible" --; Burdening our grandchildren? --; Reagan's record --; Clinton's budget; ch. 9; Money and banking --; Barter is barbarous --; Nobody invented money --; We're from the government and we're here to help --; Printing more money makes prices rise --; Banking basics --; "Wildcat" banking --; ch. 10; Growing pains --; The business cycle : courtesy of the government --; The "progressive" Herbert Hoover --; The New Deal didn't fix the Depression --; Did World War II get us out of the Depression? --; The whole is not the sum of the parts --; ch. 11; Bread and circuses : popular government programs --; NASA : needlessly dangerous --; Outer space : too big for the private sector? --; Capitalists : just out for a buck? --; LBJ's war on taxpayers --; Sacrosanct Social Security --; ch. 12; Running government like a business --; Profits versus bureaucracy --; Amtrak --; Going postal over poor service --; Public utilities --; Government in a jam --; ch. 13; Trusting the feds on antitrust --; The myth of the robber barons --; The infamous case of Standard Oil --; The case against antitrust --; The case for Microsoft; ch. 14; Trade wars --; Tariffs are taxes on Americans --; Protecting jobs? --; Classical wisdom --; Debunking the deficit --; The trade deficit : follow the money --; ch. 15; Making money in the global village --; Manufacturing a crisis --; Outsourcing destroys jobs? --; Outsourcing makes America richer --; The high-tech sector : another phony crisis --; Capital export is a capital idea --; We're from the world government and we're here to help --; ch. 16; The investor class : in other words, you and me --; Interest : sooner is better than later --; The importance of middlemen --; The farsighted speculator --; Futures and other derivatives : to each according to his ability --; Raiders of the lost corporation --; A twelve-step plan for understanding the free market --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index
N2  - An irreverent look at capitalism that exposes common fallacies and offers simple explanations of complex issues related to capitalism and its role in the world's economy
ER  -