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Carregando... Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism (1951)de Henry Hazlitt
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Most of the book is taken up with conversations between Peter and No. 3 about what is wrong with the communist system and the working out of a capitalist alternative. The world power had deleted all reference to capitalism from history, so the process has to develop from first principles; even double-entry book-keeping has to be reinvented. It is, to be truthful, a very tedious way of writing, with only the occasional assassination attempt or all-out war to enliven the narrative.
The capitalist model that Peter comes up with would probably have gone down well with Thatcher and Reagan with light regulation relying on efficient markets, and minimal state intervention in citizens' lives. He eschews quantitative easing, has no real answer to inflation and skirts around state welfare, apparently relying on individual altruism and charity. I cannot see his ideas providing answers to 21st.C.problems.
The book was recommended by Merryn Somerset Webb in the Financial Times as a reminder of the problems of communism and a primer for capitalism. The book does meet those objectives but is a dull read. As a bedtime book I was asleep within three or four pages. ( )