HAYEK, Friedrich August von (ed.).

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Capitalism and the Historians. First edition. Edited by Hayek, who also supplied the introduction, the collection of essays examines why historians had treated capitalism so critically."A provocative set of essays, several of which are brilliant, which argue that capitalism, even in the days of the Manchester slums and the child worker, was an immediate positive social good. The authors hold - from actual case studies of the English worker, his work, and his times - that the prevalent belief in the immediate evil of the Industrial Revolution is a myth, perpetuated by a few historians and intellectuals" (Hazlitt, pp. 84-5).The contributors were T. S. Ashton, L. M. Hacker, W. H. Hutt, and B. de Jouvenel.

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