In this remarkable, expansive text, Peter Nolan explores the impact of the domineering economic phenomenon on our personal and social liberties. They have intensified global inequality within both rich and poor countries, and between the internationalised global power elite and the mass of citizens rooted within their respective nation. They comprehensively threaten the natural environment. In an epoch of capitalist globalisation, its contradictions have intensified. However, capitalist freedom is a two-edged sword. The advances achieved by the globalization of capitalism have appeared all the more striking, when set against the failure of non-capitalist systems of economic organization. Human beings have been liberated to an even greater degree than hitherto from the tyranny of nature, from the control of others, from poverty and from war. As capitalism has broadened its scope in the epoch of globalization, these benefits have become even greater. This force, namely capitalism, has stimulated human creativity and aggression in ways that have produced immense benefits. Since ancient times the exercise of individual freedoms has been inseparable from the expansion of the market, driven by the search for profit.
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