Author(s): Tom Bethell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 378
Binding: Hardcover
The phenomenal success of Western civilization and the remarkable economic expansion fueled by modern capitalism, says Tom Bethell, depend chiefly on the institution of private property and the development of secure property rights. Yet this simple, striking idea is misunderstood (and misrepresented) by elite opinion leaders in the United States and around the world. Bethell, a reporter for the American Spectator, offers a history of property as an idea and a reality around the world. In the United States, we tend to take property rights for granted, failing to understand that, in our politically correct, increasingly socialist age, our ongoing economic success depends upon property rights and liberty.