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Reisman's Program of Self-Education in the Economic Theory and Political Philosophy of Capitalism 2.0, on CDs, in mp3 format.

CAPITALISM:
A Treatise on Economics
by
George Reisman


The Clearest and Most Comprehensive Contemporary Defense of the Capitalist Economic System Available

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Literature and Lectures by Edith Packer, George Reisman, and Others

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The excerpts that follow are of varying lengths and levels of difficulty. They should serve to show that there is a great deal in this book for everyone, from beginner to advanced student.

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Selection Menu for Excerpts from George Reisman's Capitalism

 

From the Introduction (pp. 1-2) From Chapter 7: How Repeal of Rent Controls Would Restore Harmony Between Landlords and Tenants (pp. 240-241)

From Chapter 14: The Undermining of Capital Accumulation and Real Wages by Government Intervention (pp. 636-639)
Chapter 1, Economics and Capitalism (pp. 15-38, complete) From Chapter 8: The Necessity of Evil Means to Achieve Socialism (pp. 282-283)
From Chapter 15: The Role of Saving and Productive Expenditure in Aggregate Demand (pp. 682-685)
From Chapter 2: The Scarcity of Labor and Its Ineradicability (pp. 59-61)
From Chapter 9: The General Benefit from Private Ownership of the Means of Production (pp. 296-297) From Chapter 16: The Problem of Aggregate Profit: Productive Expenditure and the Generation of Equivalent Sales Revenues and Costs (pp. 723-725)

From Chapter 3:

The Toxicity of Environmentalism (an essay derived from Part B of the chapter)

The Loss of the Concept of Economic Progress (p. 106)

 From Chapter 10:

High Capital Requirements as an Indicator of Low Prices and the Intensity of Competition (p. 376)

A Little Known Essential Aspect of Austrian Economics: Böhm-Bawerk and Wieser on the Determination of Price by Cost of Production (pp. 414-416)

 From Chapter 17: Implications for the Doctrine of Price Premiums in the Rate of Interest (pp. 825-826)
From Chapter 4: The Division of Labor and Society (pp. 128-129)

From Chapter 11: The Conceptual Framework of the Exploitation Theory (pp. 476-479) From Chapter 18: The Marginal-Efficiency-of-Capital Doctrine's Reversal of the Actual Relationship Between Net Investment and the Rate of Profit (pp. 882-883)
From Chapter 5: Capitalist Planning and the Price System (p. 137)
From Chapter 12: [Why the Policy of Easy Money Raises Interest Rates] p. 521 From Chapter 19: Falling Prices Under the 100-Percent-Reserve Gold Standard Would Not Be Deflationary (pp. 954-955)
From Chapter 6: [Why It's Reasonable That You Can Borrow Money Only to the Extent That You Have Money] (p. 187) From the beginning of Chapter 13: [Introduction to Productionism] (pp. 542-543)
Chapter 20: "Toward the Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism" (complete)

 

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