tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post112833849370110057..comments2024-03-29T10:51:27.752+13:00Comments on Not PC: Release of the 'Capitalist Manifesto'Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1128467240929671802005-10-05T12:07:00.000+13:002005-10-05T12:07:00.000+13:00There is an excellent review of this book on Amazo...There is an <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A16IJ17J6SS9EL/102-4778854-1770518?%5Fencoding=UTF8&display=public&page=1" REL="nofollow">excellent review</A> of this book on Amazon. The reviewer seems to have studied Ayn Rand in detail, and he claims that her works form the basis for much of this book. To excerpt:<BR/><BR/>THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO (TCM) has many merits. Most significantly, Prof. Bernstein focuses considerable attention on those businessmen, inventors and creators whose abilities have been unleashed thanks to capitalism. Many defenses of capitalism omit this crucial aspect of the case for capitalism.<BR/><BR/>[...]<BR/><BR/>TCM is comprehensive and worth reading, even if you are familiar with Rand or capitalist apologetics. All the same, I couldn't help thinking as I read this book that its arguments would have been strengthened in Prof. Bernstein had relied more on the insights of non-Objectivist thinkers. A good dose of Misesian praxeology and methodological individualism helps the newcomer overcome many of the attractions of socialist thought. Prof. Bernstein leaves too much of the "heavy lifting" to Rand and his book suffers for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com