Capitalism

Reisman's Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics runs to roughly the size of a full Britannica volume, both in page count and in how much it packs into each page. It is a sweeping defense of free-market capitalism, and the author presents it as the most thorough and philosophically rigorous case of its kind available today. Its economic theory and political philosophy are argued at the cutting edge of current thinking.

The work is meant for thoughtful readers who want to make sense of the economic and political forces shaping the modern world. It also ranges widely into the history, social life and culture connected to those forces, and it considers what would be needed to improve human welfare in these two central areas. Readers looking for one comprehensive resource on those questions will find it here.

Reisman is an economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises, and he has taught at Pepperdine University.