I gave a talk last month to the good people at the Midwest Peace and Liberty Fest in Delton, Michigan.
Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...