The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
In The Anti-capitalistic Mentality, the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance to economic development and social change. He enumerates and rebuts the economic arguments against and the psychological and social objections to economic freedom in the form of capitalism. Written during the heyday of twentieth-century socialism, this work provides the reader with lucid and compelling insights into human reactions to capitalism.
The Anti-capitalist Mentality, edited and with a preface by Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY
- CHAPTER 1: The Social Characteristics of Capitalism and the Psychological Causes of Its Vilification
- 1: The Sovereign Consumer
- 2: The Urge for Economic Betterment
- 3: Status Society and Capitalism
- 4: The Resentment of Frustrated Ambition
- 5: The Resentment of the Intellectuals
- 6: The Anti-capitalistic Bias of American Intellectuals
- 7: The Resentment of the White Collar Workers
- 8: The Resentment of the “Cousins”
- 9: The Communism of Broadway and Hollywood
- CHAPTER 2: The Ordinary Man’s Social Philosophy
- 1: Capitalism as It Is and as It Is Seen by the Common Man
- 2: The Anti-capitalistic Front
- CHAPTER 3: Literature Under Capitalism
- 1: The Market for Literary Products
- 2: Success on the Book Market
- 3: Remarks about the Detective Stories
- 4: Freedom of the Press
- 5: The Bigotry of the Literati
- 6: The “Social” Novels and Plays
- CHAPTER 4: The Noneconomic Objections to Capitalism
- 1: The Argument of Happiness
- 2: Materialism
- 3: Injustice
- 4: The “Bourgeois Prejudice” for Liberty
- 5: Liberty and Western Civilization
- CHAPTER 5: “Anticommunism” versus Capitalism