Gallery of Testimonials Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Testimonials  Adam Smith Adam Smith  Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville  Charles Dickens Charles Dickens  Karl Marx Karl Marx  Samul Smiles Samul Smiles  Winston Churchill Winston Churchill  John Keynes John Keynes  Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell  Joseph Schumpeter Joseph Schumpeter  Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer  Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping  Thomas Friedman Thomas Friedman  Naomi Klein Naomi Klein  Riccardo Bellofiore Riccardo Bellofiore  Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson  Luigi Zingales Luigi Zingales

Adam Smith ( ) Scottish social philosopher, pioneer of political economy  father of modern economics and capitalism Reference text: The Wealth of Nations Focus : CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: investigation of the causes of wealth aiming at the substitution of industrial freedom for a system of restriction Critical thinking: Capitalism, Political Economy, causes of wealth

Alexis de Tocqueville ( ) French Political thinker and historian  Liberal position about democracy Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland(1835) Focus: ManchesterManchester Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels Critical thinking: Alienation, exploitation, industrialization, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism, utilitarism

Charles Dickens ( ) English Victorian novelist  remarkable characters  superb telling technique  symbolic portrait social class contrast Reference text: Hard Times (1854)  Utilitarianism Focus: CoketownCoketown Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville, A. Toynbee Critical thinking: social rift, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists

German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist  Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture Reference text: Das Kapital(1867) Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, F. Engels, Luigi Zingales Critical thinking: industrialization, unequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth Karl Heinrich Marx ( )

Scottish author and reformer. Reference text: Thrift (1875) Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter Critical thinking: Industrialization, metaphor of the multi – faceted nature of capitalism Samuel Smiles (1812 –1904)

British Conservative Politician  statesman and orator, Nobel Prize for Literature  twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55)  officer in the British Army  historian, writer, artist  he received the Nobel Prize in Literature Reference: Sir W. Churchill QuotesSir W. Churchill Quotes Focus : CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: powerful command of the English language, literature Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army Winston Churchill ( )

British economist  He is considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics, and the most influential economist of the 20th century.  His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics Reference text: The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (1936) Focus: Capitalism and direct interventionsCapitalism and direct interventions Cross cultural references: R. Bellofiore Critical thinking: industrialization, Keynesianism, direct intervention on financial problems John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946)

Joseph Alois Schumpeter ( ) An Austrian American economist and political scientist.  Popularized "creative destruction" in economics Reference text: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, L. Zingales, R. Bellofiore Critical thinking: industrialization, the European financial situation, creative destruction

American social writer  He was the author of ten books  He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 Reference text: (1971) Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Critical thinking: corruption of business and capitalism Eric Hoffer ( )

Politician and reformist leader of the Communist Party of China  led China towards a market economy. Reference: Deng Xiaoping quotes Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter Critical thinking: market economy, to be rich is gloriouos because it gave power and wealth Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997)

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author  conservative thinker of the late 20th century  America's leading philosopher  seminal study on the role of Race in history  explain the principles underlying modern economics  he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a conservative and libertarian perspective.laissez-faire  opposes Marxism, Reference text : Marxism: Philosophy and EconomicsMarxism: Philosophy and Economics Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, F. A. Hayek, Joseph SchumpeterMilton FriedmanGeorge StiglerF. A. HayekJoseph Schumpeter Critical thinking: pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity Thomas Sowell (1930)

American journalist and author.  He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times.  He has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. Reference text: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization(1999) Focus: Free-Market capitalismFree-Market capitalism Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Critical thinking: global trade, the Middle East, Globalization, environmental issues Thomas Friedman (1953)

Canadian author and social activist  known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. Reference text: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter Critical thinking: frontier capitalism shifting from crisis to crisis Naomi Klein (1970)

Full professor in political Economy at the University of Bergamo Reference text: An article from “the Guardian”(2011) Focus: A crisis of CapitalismA crisis of Capitalism Cross cultural references: Karl Marx, Hyman Philip Minsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland, John Maynard Keynes Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe Riccardo Bellofiore

Contemporary English Writer  adopted by Pentecostal parents  boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, sexual identities Reference text: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Focus: ManchesterManchester Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, C. Dickens Critical thinking: industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class – capitalists, process of change, contradictions inside society. Jeanette Winterson (1959)

Italian economist and educator  He’s the winner of the 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best European economist under 40 working in macro-finance.  Competition isn’t guaranted by the control organisms Reference text: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity(3 June 2012) Focus: CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: Adam Smith, Kenneth Joseph Arrow Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe Luigi Zingales (1963)

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