January 21, 2000

Verbatim

By D.W. MILLER

Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery by John Mueller (Princeton University Press)

Both democracy and capitalism are "pretty good" systems, writes Mr. Mueller, though with opposite problems: We expect too much of the first and too little of the second. The author, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, believes that democracy's genius is that it functions adequately even when "people are rarely, if ever, asked to rise above the ignorance and selfishness

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