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Jerry Z. Muller

Essay
Mar/Apr
2013
Capitalism and InequalityPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Jerry Z. Muller

Inequality is rising across the post-industrial capitalist world. The problem is not caused by politics and politics will never be able to eliminate it. But simply ignoring it could generate a populist backlash. Governments must accept that today as ever, inequality and insecurity are the inevitable results of market operations. Their challenge is to find ways of shielding citizens from capitalism's adverse consequences -- even as they preserve the dynamism that produces capitalism's vast economic and cultural benefits in the first place.

Review Essay
Jul/Aug
2003
We Didn't Start the Fire: Capitalism and Its Critics, Then and NowPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Sheri Berman

The Mind and the Market shows that complaints about capitalism are older and more respectable than most of the antagonists in today's globalization debates realize.

Response
Jul/Aug
2008
Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?Premium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Z. Muller

Critics refute Muller’s assumptions about ethnic conflict; Muller responds.

Book
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
Jerry Z. Muller
Essay
Mar/Apr
2008
Us and ThemPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Jerry Z. Muller

Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic society, ethnic disaggregation or partition is often the least bad answer.