I have a new e-book on line at Amazon.com. It’s titled The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism and Other Essays. It sells for just $2.99. Clicking on the title will take you to its location on Amazon, in a separate window. To pique the interest of potential readers, here's my book's table of contents:
PREFACE
I. THE BENEVOLENT NATURE OF CAPITALISM
II. FREEDOM
Freedom and Government
Freedom as the Foundation of Security
The Indivisibility of Economic and Political Freedom
The Rational Versus the Anarchic Concept of Freedom
The Decline of Freedom in the United States
III. CAPITALISM: THE CURE FOR RACISM
A. The Accusations Against Capitalism
B. Capitalism: The Cure for Racism
1. Capitalism and Justice for the Black Worker
2. Black Competition and White Living Standards
3. Capitalism and Justice for the Black Consumer
C. Forcible Obstacles to Black Progress: The Mixed Economy
1. Introduction
2. Antiprofit Legislation and Business Timidity
3. Prounion Legislation
4. Minimum Wage Legislation
5. Public Welfare Laws
6. Child Labor Legislation
7. Compulsory, Tax Supported Education
D. The Mixed Economy and the Living Conditions of Blacks
1. Government Intervention in Housing
2. Municipally Socialized Medicine
3. Municipally Socialized Sanitation Services
4. Franchise and Licensing Laws
5. The Mixed Economy and the Higher Crime Level in Black Slums
E. Conclusion: Capitalism Is the Cure for Racism
IV. EDUCATION AND THE RACIST ROAD TO BARBARISM
The Nature of Western Civilization
The Universalizability of Western Civilization
The Standard for Judging a Civilization: the Objective Superiority of Western Civilization
The New Racism
The Devaluation of Knowledge
Western Civilization and the State of Education
V. WHERE WOULD GENERAL MOTORS BE WITHOUT THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNION?
VI. GENERAL MOTORS, RIP
VII. THE MYTH THAT LAISSEZ FAIRE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FINANCIAL CRISIS
Government Intervention Actually Responsible for the Crisis
The Laissez-Faire Myth and the Marxism of the Media
VIII. HOW THE 1 PERCENT PROVIDES THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE 99 PERCENT
IX. FREE SPEECH AND OCCUPY WALL STREET
X. GUN CONTROL: CONTROLLING THE GOVERNMENT’S GUNS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTES
This blog is a commentary on contemporary business, politics, economics, society, and culture, based on the values of Reason, Rational Self-Interest, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Its intellectual foundations are Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and the theory of the Austrian and British Classical schools of economics as expressed in the writings of Mises, Böhm-Bawerk, Menger, Ricardo, Smith, James and John Stuart Mill, Bastiat, and Hazlitt, and in my own writings.