Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

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The Anti-Captialistic Mentality
By: Ludwig von Mises
ISBN13: 978-0-86597-671-9

"A nation is the more prosperous today the less it has tried to put obstacles in the way of the spirit of free enterprise and private initiative." (From the introduction.)

Why, then, do people who enjoy the high standard of living resulting from free market capitalism dislike, or even despise, capitalism? Why do entire countries, seeing the prosperity of Western capitalist economies, turn to the collectivism and socialism that extends compounds poverty in Cuba, North Korea, and the former Soviet satellite states?

Mises' The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality is his attempt to answer these question, and more. After decades of scholarship in economics and apologetics for freedom in the marketplace, Mises took on the task of explaining the "root causes" of anti-capitalist bias of intellectuals and everyday people in American and Western capitalist cultures. Just as important, he exposes the detrimental consequences of this anti-capitalist bias---the outright distrust of freedom in the marketplace.