Why Capitalism? Fourteen Answers from Mother Nature

Surprisingly, this book shows we are well on the way in the evolutionof a peaceful, prosperous civilization.

With social success comes economic growth. Our world's wealth has increased more than 18,000 percent in the last 250 years (0.5 percent of modern human's 50,000 year history). During the same period, most of our world's nations have become democracies. These two facts speak to the effectiveness of capitalism as nature's fountainhead of world peace and prosperity.

Rather than being a...