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Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Economics during Friedrich Hayek''s time there. For over thirty years he was Editorial Director of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalise their economies. The Virtues of Capitalism, the inaugural volume in Liberty Fund''s Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, presents the foundation of Seldon''s views and theories of capitalism and its alternatives. Entitled Corrigible Capitalism; Incorrigible Socialism, part one of The Virtues of Capitalism was first published in 1980. It explains why, Seldon believes, ''private enterprise is imperfect but redeemable'', but the state economy promises the earth, and ends in coercion to conceal its incurable failure. The second part, ''Capitalism'', is widely considered to be

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      Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2004
      ISBN13: 9780865975422, 978-0865975422
      ISBN10: 865975426
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      Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Economics during Friedrich Hayek''s time there. For over thirty years he was Editorial Director of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalise their economies. The Virtues of Capitalism, the inaugural volume in Liberty Fund''s Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, presents the foundation of Seldon''s views and theories of capitalism and its alternatives. Entitled Corrigible Capitalism; Incorrigible Socialism, part one of The Virtues of Capitalism was first published in 1980. It explains why, Seldon believes, ''private enterprise is imperfect but redeemable'', but the state economy promises the earth, and ends in coercion to conceal its incurable failure. The second part, ''Capitalism'', is widely considered to be

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