Economic historian Robert Hessen was a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Hessen´s views on key elements and controversies in Capitalism´s modern history, focusing especially on its economic individualism.
The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism.
Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals
Reading your book. Great stuff. Geographics, =my wife and I graduated from NIU 50 years ago been in San Francisco since. An element of discussion on the major “systems” we have inherited. As their descriptions emenated from the era of determinism and science it was natural that a template was needed for description and comparison. That was economics with it’s convenient language of numbers. Thus each competitive system can be compared. In fact the social effects, with number influence, are often much more important. Individualism, is, not necessarily a function of economics, the reverse is true and so on. Anecdotal example homelessness explained by economics in an area with zero unemployment.
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