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Contents

 

I. EVOLUTION OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Bank
Report on the Subject of Manufactures
Friedrich List, the National System of Political Economy

II. EMERGENCE OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles
John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House

III. SOCIALIST REACTION TO INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
V. 1. Lenin, The State and Revolution

IV. SEARCH FOR A MIDDLE WAY

Pope Leo XIII, Return Novarum
Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

V. ISSUES OF POVERTY IN A MODERN, INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Michael Harrington, The Other America
Dorothy Day, By Little and By Little
Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

VI. ISSUES OF WEALTH IN A MODERN, INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth

VII. PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS

Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
Mahatma Gandhi, The Gandhi Sutras
Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

VIII. ASCENDANCY OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM OVER MARXIST SOCIALISM

Ronald Wilson Reagan, Remarks to the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University
Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus