From hedge funds to arbitrage to Roth IRAs to globalization, capitalism and all that it entails is often complicated and intimidating. Today, as the triumphs, excesses, and failures of free market capitalism and globalization continue to hold sway over the daily news and our daily lives, this essential reference offers a compendium of capitalism's many aspects--from the people who champion it to the mechanisms and institutions that uphold it to the terms and laws that define it. Edited by Gretchen Morgenson, a leading business journalist at the New York Times, The Capitalist's Bible is one-stop shopping for readers who want to learn the basic concepts of the economic system that underwrites the American (and increasingly, world) economy, those who may be encountering capitalism for the first time, or even those who just want to be able to speak with more authority about capitalism or the markets the next time the topic comes up in conversation. It will include enlightening sections like: Capitalism 101 Capitalist Glossary People Every Capitalist Should Know Capitalist Successes Disasters in Capitalism Capitalism Around the World Must-Reading for Capitalists It is more important than ever to understand the information in The Capitalist's Bible, and, to explain why, this book also features a preface by Morgenson and an introduction by Robert J. Samuelson, a columnist for Newsweek and the Washington Post.