In this new myth busting book Director of the Adam Smith Institute Eamon Butler describes how it is by looking to the markets, rather than to the politicians, that we will return to prosperity. Butler decribes how the free market harnesses self-interest and punishes greed, how government intervention raises everybody's costs and how it is capitalism – not socialism – that has made Britain rich. In twelve eyeopening chapters, Successful Economics illustrates how capitalism is the hero of its own story.