Why is Our Culture Hostile to Capitalism?

Ellen Clardy, PhD
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readApr 7, 2023

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Part 1 of a Discussion of Peter Foster’s Why We Bite the Invisible Hand Chapter 1 “Cardboard Cut-out Capitalism”

A picture of the top-hat-wearing cartoon man from the Monopoly board game representing “the rich”
Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash

The title of journalist Peter Foster’s book definitely captured my attention: Why We Bite the Invisible Hand.

The invisible hand is a metaphor from Adam Smith that we use in economics to describe how the economy works.

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Ellen Clardy, PhD
ILLUMINATION

Professor of Economics at Houston Christian University since 2010 — If you'd like to read more, click to Follow, Join the email list, or Tip. Thank you!