Mises Review
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David Gordon
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The Capitalist Muse Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998) IN PRAISE OF COMMERCIAL CULTURE Tyler Cowen Harvard University Press, 1998, xi + 278 pgs. Cultural pessimists such as John Ruskin claim that capitalism leads to a decline in literature, painting, and music. The market panders to the debased tastes of the masses and strikes a mortal blow at