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Capitalism: The American Revolution
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Michael Novak writes that the rule of law is key to the success of democratic captialism.
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Capitalism Does Not Thrive Unfettered

HATTIE: You gave us your encyclopedia definition of capitalism, but what about democratic capitalism?

MICHAEL: Well, I want to say a word about democracy and about capitalism. It struck me that in the United States, long before the Catholic church or other churches talked about it, there was the Sherman Antitrust Trust Act, 1890, which was an attempt to control monopolies.

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1. Capitalism is the Only Proven Path from Poverty to Prosperity
2. The American Version Of Capitalism Has Not Been Articulated Well
3. Many Owning A Little Is Better Than a Few Owning A Lot
4. Business Owners Are Not Elites
5. Capitalism Requires A New Attitude About the Creation of Wealth
6. Struggle for Improvement
Is A Moral Duty
7. Capitalism Does Not Thrive Unfettered
8. Capitalism Depends
Upon Hard-Working People
9. Democratic Capitalism Is A
Three-Legged Stool
10. Business Is Not About Greed
11. Capitalism Is Good For The Soul
12. Capitalism Is Organized
Around The Mind
13. Small Business Is The Most Important Institution In A Civil Society


In other words, we always had the sense that the economy shouldn't just grow wild. There should be -- it should be within a framework of law.

So in the United States we've always thought from the beginning, without being socialist, that there's a role for government and there's a role for law and only within that context can capitalism develop. That's why I speak about democratic capitalism. You even need the external law and you need the habits in people that if they say they're going to do a good day's work, you can trust them to do a good day's work. If you have a manager who's seven miles away who said we did thus and so, you can believe him. And by goodness if you don't believe him you fire him, because we depend on honesty.

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