Preface.

This section provides an overview of several articles on capitalism. The first chapter is the paper Against Market Fundamentalism: The Capitalist Threat Reconsidered. Here George Soros has introduced his new term market fundamentalism referring to a view according to which all kind of human values can be reduced to market values. Peter Koslowski's contribution is titled Ethics of Capitalism. Its main thesis is that capitalism constitutes a necessary component of a free society but considering capitalist economic order as to be the whole society falls short of social reality. Another chapter titled Misunderstood and Abused Liberalism, by Lubomir Mlcock, focuses on the problematic of Czech style capitalism.