My review of a new book by Martin Vander Weyer on capitalism for the Telegraph:

“Yet in focusing on the need for capitalists of better character, the author misses our economic system’s true power. Every society depends on virtue. The extraordinary thing about capitalism is how it can, most of the time, put even rogues to productive use. Alternatives such as socialism and communism dream instead of perfecting people, and have so far produced nothing but empty words, hungry mouths and mountains of dissident corpses. This side of utopia, capitalism is the best way we know to tame our own greedy monsters.”

Read the whole thing.