Rickerism

I had the opportunity to read Jerry Z. Muller’s The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought (Knopf: 2002). I highly recommend it. Muller gives a great overview of key philosophers and their impact on capitalism. I took away a key conclusion: The essence of capitalism and its success does not change because […]

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I was reading about Josiah Wedgwood last night. Wedgwood industrialized the manufacture of pottery in the last decades of the 18th Century. The author cited a letter in which Wedgwood wrote,
Few hands can be got to paint in the style we want them. I may add, nor any other work we do. We must […]

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