Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Bernstein places the origin of capitalism in the mathematics of chance. For Ayn Rand, capitalism began with the recognition of individual rights in the Enlightenment. That identification of those rights rested on a largely implicit realization of the individual as such, which began in the Renaissance. We ascribe the idea of the Re... (See the whole review) (Added by Michael E. Marotta on 12/29/2013, 11:48am)
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