PositiveThe NationIt is the great virtue of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and Its Critics that it shows this category to be far more capacious—and even chimerical—than one might at first assume ... Cassidy has made a persuasive case that capitalism cannot survive without policymakers and business leaders taking even quite radical objections seriously ... He also identifies more subtlety and complexity in Marx’s portrait of capitalism than most standard glosses admit ... But Cassidy ultimately sees Marx’s work as no more than a ‘mixed bag.\'
