An academic wrote a book two years ago that comes close to appreciating my Pro Commerce thesis. It is Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. I just discovered it in a review. 
The reviewer has a great statement:
"Much of McCloskey’s book is thus also devoted to debunking one curiously persistent strain of modern superstition: The widely held belief that commercial society limits, rather than expands, individual liberty; that it allows us to exploit rather than cooperate with one another; and that it impoverishes rather than enriches the poor. In the patient prose of someone making an honest attempt to persuade skeptics, McCloskey shows that each one of these tenets of the anti-capitalist catechism is, despite its centuries-old pedigree, demonstrably false."
Sorry I didn't find this book earlier. She is on the right track.