The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, & Liberty

by Peter L. Berger

Renowned sociologist, Peter L. Berger, explains why capitalism is the most successful economic mechanism ever devised for improving material standards of large numbers of people.

Genres: Economics, Nonfiction, Social Science

262 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1986

About the author

Peter L. Berger was an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He had a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He was the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mind, and Questions of Faith.