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Index
Title Page
Dedication
ARE YOU A CAPITALIST PIG? TAKE THE QUIZ AND FIND OUT!
Chapter One - CAPITALISM, PROFITS, AND ENTREPRENEURS
So what is capitalism, anyway?
Laissez-faire versus regulation
Free to starve?
Mass production for the masses
Central planning versus the “anarchy” of production
We won the Cold War! Or did we?
Chapter Two - THE PRICE IS RIGHT (BY DEFINITION)
Prices are signals
The big fuss over “Big Oil”
Running out of gas . . .
Rent control (or, How to destroy a neighborhood)
Chapter Three - LABOR PAINS
Baseball players make more than teachers! Where are our priorities?
Even bad CEOs deserve the big bucks
Child labor laws are unnecessary
The minimum wage (or, How to create unemployment)
Unions hurt the working man
Give me a break!
Chapter Four - THE CASE AGAINST ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS
The free market’s “racist fee”
Discrimination is bad for business
The “discriminating” customer
Private property and the freedom of association
There’s nothing “affirmative” about affirmative action
So everything’s hunky-dory?
Chapter Five
Government protects slavery
Slavery was declining before state interference
Slavery: Immoral, yes, but also inefficient!
The rising price of slaves
If slavery is so inefficient, then why did it exist at all?
Chapter Six - HOW CAPITALISM WILL SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Rhinos versus cows
Conservation for whom?
We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it
The ultimate bet: Ehrlich bombs
Recycle? Or dump?
The pollution of activist government
Chapter Seven - ENSURING SAFETY: THE MARKET OR BIG BROTHER?
There’s always a trade-off . . .
Market safety
The regulators: Third-party guarantors
Is there a doctor in the house?
Safety: Taking it to the streets
Good intentions with deadly consequences
Chapter Eight - SETTLING DEBTS
Deficits don’t cause inflation
Deficits crowd out private investment
Raising taxes isn’t “responsible”
Burdening our grandchildren?
Reagan’s record
Clinton’s budget
Chapter Nine - MONEY AND BANKING
Barter is barbarous
Nobody invented money
We’re from the government and we’re here to help
Printing more money makes prices rise
Banking basics
“Wildcat” banking
Chapter Ten - GROWING PAINS
The business cycle: Courtesy of the government
The “progressive” Herbert Hoover
The New Deal didn’t fix the Depression
Did World War II get us out of the Depression?
The whole is not the sum of the parts
A (government) penny spent is a penny earned
Chapter Eleven - BREAD AND CIRCUSES: POPULAR GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
NASA: Needlessly dangerous
Outer space: Too big for the private sector?
Capitalists: Just out for a buck?
LBJ’s war on taxpayers
Sacrosanct Social Security
Chapter Twelve - RUNNING GOVERNMENT LIKE A BUSINESS
Profits versus bureaucracy
Amtrak
Going postal over poor service
Public utilities
Government in a jam
Chapter Thirteen - TRUSTING THE FEDS ON ANTITRUST
The myth of the robber barons
The infamous case of Standard Oil
The case against antitrust
The case for Microsoft
Chapter Fourteen - TRADE WARS
Tariffs are taxes on Americans
Protecting jobs?
Classical wisdom
Debunking the deficit
The trade deficit: Follow the money
Chapter Fifteen - MAKING MONEY IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
Manufacturing a crisis
Outsourcing destroys jobs?
Outsourcing makes America richer
The high-tech sector: Another phony crisis
Capital export is a capital idea
We’re from the world government and we’re here to help
Chapter Sixteen - THE INVESTOR CLASS: IN OTHER WORDS, YOU AND ME
Interest: Sooner is better than later
The importance of middlemen
The farsighted speculator
Futures and other derivatives: To each according to his ability...
Raiders of the lost corporation
A TWELVE-STEP PLAN FOR UNDERSTANDING THE FREE MARKET
Acknowledgements
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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