title: The Capitalist Manifesto
author:  Andrew Bernstein 
description: For Professor Bernstein, there are no limits to what man can achieve. This book unabashedly supports capitalismthe system of individual rights, private property, and pursuit of profit. Every businessman who has earned profit, and the millions of customers who have benefited from business productivity should read this epic to appreciate capitalism's glorious accomplishments that we take for granted. (Mark S. Rothstein, Founder and President, Harmoney Financial Advisers, Host of Mr. Money Radio and Television Shows)<br /><br /><i>The Capitalist Manifesto</i> is an immensely provocative work that should be read from the halls of academia to the streets of the Middle East. Mr. Bernstein's arguments pack the intellectual firepower to blast socialism back to the Stone Age. This rich book is a triumph in the crusade for liberty and individual rights. (Jonathan Hoenig, Fox News Contributor and Portfolio Manager, Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC)<br /><br />This monumental work is a tribute to greatnessthe exalted men of the mind who create a world of wealth and prosperity, and the great social system of liberty and individual rights that liberates a nation's mind power. Everyone should read this fascinating book for a clear understanding of capitalismthe system that has doubled our life span, created vast wealth, and generated even vaster opportunities. (Carl B. Barney, Chairman and CEO, CollegeAmerica and Independence University)<br /><br /><i>The Capitalist Manifesto</i> is the most sophisticated, the most philosophical, indeed, the most brilliant defense of capitalism published in a generation. Bernstein has done what no conservative or libertarian proponent of capitalism has even dared try: to defend it on moral grounds. This book will revolutionize American culture if read by every college student. All in all, a remarkable achievement. (C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of History and Political Science, Ashland University)<br /><br />Although this book is written for the educated generalist or layperson and the college student, it should be read by everyoneespecially by journalists and politicians. Hopefully, it will be adopted as a textbook both here and abroad with foreign editions and translations. Bernstein's seminal work is a triumph in the crusade for freedom and individual rights. We certainly need more books like this. (Ed Younkins, Professor of Accountancy, Wheeling Jesuit University)<br /><br />In succinctly presenting the historical-economic facts of 19th century capitalism, Professor Bernstein has performed an act of profound justice. While ably recounting how capitalism became the world's most practical social system, he also explains precisely why this was so: because it was the world's only supremely moral system. (Richard M. Salsman, President and Chief Economist, InterMarket Forecasting, Inc.)
zlib_text: THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO 
  
  THE 
  CAPITALIST 
  MANIFESTO 
  by Louis 0. Kelso 
  and Mortimer J. Adler 
  RANDOM HOUSE, 
  NEW YORK 
  
  Second Printing 
  © Copyright, 1958, by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler 
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright 
  Conventions. Published in New York by Random House, Inc., and 
  simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, Limited. 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58—5268 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
  by H. Wolff, New York 
  
  CONTENTS 
  PREFACE ix 
  PART ONE : THE IDEA OF THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION 
  1 WHY A CAPITALIST MANIFESTO? 3 
  Then and Now 
  The Prevailing Sense of Well-Being 
  Our Machine-Produced Happiness 
  Our Feeling about Socialism 
  The Ambush 
  An Appeal to Reason 
  2 economic freedom: property and leisure 13 
  The Three Elements of Economic Freedom 
  Labor, Leisure and Freedom 
  The Form and Character of Human Work 
  The Image of an Economically Free Society 
  3 SOME PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED 30 
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