Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy September 9, 2016 Robert L. Bradley Jr. Leave a comment Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy Internet Appendices Chapter 1: The Soul of Commerce: Adam Smith 1.1 A Worldly View 1.2 Adam Smith and Societal Order 1.3 On Bankruptcy Theory 1.4 Adam Smith and Public Policy 1.5 Self-Interest and Self-Sacrifice Chapter 2: Character and Capitalism: Samuel Smiles 2.1 Self-Help in the Self-Help/Motivational Literature 2.2 Samuel Smiles and the Feminist Movement 2.3 Samuel Smiles and Laissez-Faire Capitalism 2.4 Some Misinterpretations of Smiles Chapter 3: Supply-Side Ethics: Ayn Rand 3.1 Epistemological Objectivism versus Economic Subjectivism 3.2 The Roots of Philosophical Subjectivism 3.3 Reality, Deceit, and Philosophical Fraud 3.4 Jeff Skilling as a Nietzschean Great Man 3.5 Selfishness versus Altruism Revisited 3.6 Critics of Objectivism 3.7 Objectivism in the History of Philosophy Chapter 4: Business Opportunity 4.1 Equilibrium versus Market Process 4.2 Entrepreneurship in Economics: From Unknown to Missing 4.3 Schumpeter, Drucker, and Hamel 4.4 Economic Calculation Revisited 4.5 Externalities and Economic Calculation 4.6 The Institutional Framework of Economic Calculation 4.7 Markets within a Firm Chapter 5: The Business of Politics 5.1 Kolko and Schumpeter on Capitalist Stagnation and Instability 5.2 The “Remarkable” Influence of Perfect-Competition Theory 5.3 The Realism of Arthur Bentley Chapter 6: U.S. Political Capitalism 6.1 “Overproduction” and the Business Cycle 6.2 Progressivism and Statism 6.3 The “New Vocabulary” 6.4. Early Political Capitalism 6.5 The Hoover Mythology Chapter 7: Malthusianism 7.1 Pre-Malthus “Malthusianism” 7.2 Did Malthus Change His Mind? 7.3 Coal: The Great Liberator 7.4 Jevons as a Malthusian 7.5 Precedent to Jevons 7.6 Unnecessary Alarmism? Chapter 8: A Joined Debate 8.1 Zimmermann—A Forgotten Economist 8.2 Zimmermann and Institutionalism 8.3 Zimmermann’s Methodological Isolation 8.4 Zimmermann and Petroleum Conservation 8.5 The Rise of Conservation Economics Chapter 9: Neo-Malthusianism 9.1 Thoroughgoing Alarmism: Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren 9.2 Deep Ecology 9.3 Welfare Economics Chapter 10: The Dark Decade 10.1 Hotelling’s Sophism 10.2 The Conversion of Julian Simon Chapter 11: New Light 11.1 Julian Simon as Paradigm Builder 11.2 Margaret Thatcher and Global Warming 11.3 Broader Energy Alarmism 11.4 Contemporary Hubbert Analysis Epilogue: Real Capitalism, Surreal Enron E.1 Ethical Individualism E.2 Self-Interest and Ethics Uncategorized
