ISBN: 9780061560989    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 320        Language: English

From hedge funds to arbitrage to Roth IRAs to globalization, capitalism and all that it entails is often complicated, jargon-prone, and intimidating. Today, as the triumphs, excesses, and failures of free market capitalism and globalization continue to hold sway over the daily news and our daily lives, this essential reference offers a compendium of capitalism's many aspects - from the mechanisms and institutions that uphold it to the terms and laws that define it. Edited by Gretchen Morgenson, a leading business journalist at the "New York Times", "The Capitalist's Bible" will be one-stop shopping for readers who want to learn the basic concepts of the economic system that underwrites the American (and increasingly, world) economy. It will include enlightening sections like: Capitalism 101, Capitalist Chronology, People Every Capitalist Should Know, Capitalist Successes, Disasters in Capitalism, Must-Reading for Capitalists, and Capitalist Glossary. "The Capitalist's Bible" will also feature a preface by Morgenson and an introduction by Robert J.
Samuelson, a columnist for "Newsweek" and the "Washington Post" and the author of "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement" (1995) and "Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom is (Almost Always) Wrong" (2001).
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Gretchen Morgenson, the editor of THE CAPITALIST'S BIBLE, is assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at The New York Times where she has covered the world financial markets since 1998. In 2002, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. Having worked as a stockbroker at Dean Witter Reynolds in the early 1980s, Morgenson lends her reporting a depth of knowledge and skepticism uncommon in financial journalism.
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