Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page--capitalism: a treatise on economics is the philosophically and intellectually strongest and...Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page--capitalism: a treatise on economics is the philosophically and intellectually strongest and most comprehensive book in the defense of laissez-faire capitalism that can be found anywhere in the world at the present time.