The Morality of Capitalism in Contrary to Socialism

Professor Robert Heilbrenner was probably the most respected socialist academic of the late 20th century. In his best-selling book, The Worldly Philosophers, he contrasts two attitudes about capitalism. Keynes is rejecting capitalism at its fundamentals does not make him a socialist,. And we do find in laissez-faire that he does also criticize the authoritarianism that's necessarily built into socialism.

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