Constructing the Capitalist Creed
How "free enterprise" became an American tradition
Free Enterprise: An American History by Lawrence Glickman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50.
For many people, the phrase “free enterprise” strikes a sense of uneasy familiarity. Though it is commonly used in American political discourse, the term is often expressed loosely, without any real preci…
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