Originally

Copyright, ©, 1956 by

D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INc.

Published simultaneously in Canada by

D. VAN NosTRAND CoMPANY {Canada), LTD.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card No.: 56-12097

Introduction

I. 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

II. THE ORDINARY MAN’S SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

The substitution of laissez-faire capitalism for the precapitalistic methods of economic management has multiplied population figures and raised in an unprecedented way the average standard of living. 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. The people of the United States are more prosperous than the inhabitants of all other countries because their government embarked later than the governments in other parts of the world upon the policy of obstructing business.

1. THE SOVEREIGN CONSUMER

1. CAPITALISM AS IT IS AND AS IT IS SEEN BY THE COMMON MAN

1. THE MARKET FOR LITERARY PRODUCTS

1. THE ARGUMENT OF HAPPINESS

Critics level two charges against capitalism: First, they say, that the possession of a motor car, a television set and a refrigerator does not make a man happy. Secondly, they add, that there are still people who own none of these gadgets. Both propositions are correct, but they do not cast blame upon the capitalistic system of social cooperation.

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G  |  H  |  I  |  K  |  L  |  M  |  N  |  O  |  P  |  R

S  |  T  |  V  |  W  |  Z

Anti-communism, 106 ff.

Architecture, 78 f.

Aristocrats, 8, 45

Aydelotte, W. O., 53