Description:Capitalism has proved itself to be the most enduring economic system of our time. This book explores whether capitalism will destroy us or liberate us. Looks at the approaches to and debates about capitalism as both an abstract idea and as a historical processPresents the arguments of some of the leading proponents of capitalism and some of its leading opponents, giving students the opportunity to draw their own conclusionsAnalyses how specific forms of specific forms of national capitalism after 1945 addressed the problems evident in inter-war capitalismExamines the global spread and perception of capitalism since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and