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Capitalism With A Human Face |
Samuel Brittan, Assistant Editor, The Financial Times, London, UK
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| 1995 |
320 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 446 1 |
£73.00 |
on-line discount
£65.70 |
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| 1995 |
320 pp |
Paperback |
978 1 85278 449 2 |
£20.00 |
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£16.00 |
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‘Any society with aspirations to egalitarianism would long since have abolished Samuel Brittan. He writes the best weekly economics column, elegant in style and provocative in content. He covers a range of subjects to a depth that should shame those of us who can cope only by concentrating on a narrow topic. He finds time to attend seminars where, inevitably, he asks the penetrating questions the speaker most dreads. He writes important books. He manages to display in the course of a few minutes more courage in challenging those to whom he might look for favours than most of us can summon in a lifetime. He is that rare British creature: an intellectual.’
– Alan Budd, Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury
‘Capitalism With a Human Face is a remarkably balanced and thoughtful book. It is a long time since I have read anything as undogmatic, and as willing to look at both sides of an issue. Sir Samuel takes firm positions where he has good grounds for them and admits his uncertainty on other points, thus avoiding both thoughtless relativism and cant. It shows that a hard head and a soft heart can complement each other. This is economics for the layman as it should be. I do hope that many people read the book.’
– Thomas Mayer, University of California, Davis, US
Capitalism With a Human Face is a wide-ranging collection of Samuel Brittan’s important recent essays. Specially edited to make a coherent whole, this volume covers topics ranging from utilitarianism and the ethics of self-interest, to the principles of macroeconomic policy and how to price people into work without throwing them into poverty. The book will be controversial. For the individualistic ethic, which it is so fashionable to attack, is not merely defended but celebrated. The collection will be of special interest both to reader’s of Samuel Brittan’s articles who would like a more extended treatment and those new to his work. A notable feature is a specially written introduction explaining how the author came to take up political economy and how he arrived at the positions elaborated in this book.
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Contents: Introduction: Footfalls in the Memory (Intellectual Autobiography) Part I: Political Economy Part II: Keynes and Hayek Part III: Jobs, Inflation and Economic Management Part IV: Problems and Policies Part V: Capitalism with a Human Face Finale: Some Presumptions of Economic Liberalism
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