Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Toward Commercial Order
Part 2 Part 1: Foundations
Chapter 3 Neither Angel nor Beast
Chapter 4 The System of Natural Liberty
Chapter 5 The Liberty of Law
Part 6 Part 2: Challenges
Chapter 7 The Temptation of Politics
Chapter 8 The Dilemma of Democracy
Chapter 9 Culture and the Possibility of "Non-Spontaneous" Commercial Society

About the Author

Samuel Gregg is director of research at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Reviews

The Commercial Society is one of those books which reminds us that commerce, trade, and free economies are deeply rooted in foundations that we tend to take for granted - until they disintegrate or are taken away. Gregg's message of commercial humanism is truly inspiring, and his warnings about its fragility bear repeating.
*Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute*

So much of Latin America continues to suffer the ravages of mercantile, neo-corporatist attitudes, policies, and institutions. Unless there is an systematic embrace of the type of moral, legal, and economic order described in Gregg's Commercial Society, populism will become the norm, corruption will continue to flourish, and untold millions who yearn only to express their economic creativity will continue to live in sub-human conditions. A well-written, easy to comprehend text that does not shy away from explaining complex issues.
*Ricardo Crespo, Universidad Austral, Argentina*

Gregg has contributed a major work to the growing literature in the field of the commerical society and its relationship to ethical and cultural foundations.
*Ethics and Economics*

An excellent study of economic liberty, its essential prerequisites, and its greatest challenges today. Everyone can learn something from this, especially those Europeans whose countries are mired in bureaucracy, stagnation, and what Tocqueville called "soft despotism."
*Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister of Estoria*