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INTRODUCTION
1. Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1944); Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
2. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1943).
3. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New
York: Free Press, 1992).
4. Murray J. Edelman, The Symbolic Uses of Politics (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1985).
5. This book analyzes political and economic systems, or political
economy. Religious and spiritual systems fall outside our analysis.
However, examples as diverse as the rise of radical Islam in
the twenty-first century and the influence of the Roman Catholic
Church in the Middle Ages show that religion has an obvious
influence on politics. Furthermore, Christian fundamentalism
has an impact on politics in the contemporary United States.
Our analysis could easily be extended to religious belief systems
since people hold similar types of beliefs about religious systems
as they do about political and economic systems. Robert Nelson
even depicts environmentalism (and economics!) as a religion;
see Robert H. Nelson, The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion
vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010). We consider
environmentalism in chapter 10.
CHAPTER 1: LAYING A FOUNDATION
1. Even “public charity” is not accurate. It is government, not public,
and it is a coerced transfer, not charity. An accurate descriptive
term would be “coerced transfers through government.” Still, the
change in terminology to avoid the stigma had only a temporary
effect, and today “welfare” has the same negative connotation as
“public charity.”
2. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, [1690] 1967).
3. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,
enlarged ed. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1992).
4. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (New York: E. P. Dutton, [1651] 1950).
5. David A. Stockman, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of
Capitalism (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013).
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