The nature and logic of capitalism Book

I thought this book was a poor analysis. It was, rather, an apologist's defense of the notion of capitalism as it is idealised and propagandized through the media. NLoC fails to address why there is so much poverty, for example, or why about 95% of the wealth of America is owned by about 2 or 3% of its population and is getting more concentrated concomitantly with expanding poverty and rates of incarceration and infant mortality. On the positive side, the writing is easy to understand as it is filled with nice homilies and quaint truisms. The reason I gave this 2 stars, and not the one that it probably deserves, is because it is one of the greatest examples of the extent to which economic thought, analysis and criticism is more ideological than rational, let alone scientific. To anyone who is critical of economics as it is thought, taught and practiced, The Nature and Logic provides easy and ample proof of current economic ideology. And what makes that truly delicious, to me anyway, is just how highly respected Heilbroner's economics ostensibly is.