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- an economic and social system in which individuals can maximize profits because they own the means of production
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- Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism is Half-Baked
- In "Creating a World Without Poverty," Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal – that's merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real – he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Do-good Capitalism: Fad or Fixture?
- Do-good Capitalism: Fad or Fixture?we'd better hope not...I propose framing the discussion along the lines of this: "The economics of Sustainable Capitalism will become increasingly apparent as the global economy, along with the global ecology, undergo a radical and exciting shift because of the 'Do-bad Capitalism' of the past two...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Do-good Capitalism: Fad or Fixture?
- The blog Curious Cat posted Do corporations exist solely to maximize their bottom lines? We don't think so, a post that drew from a Forbes article looking at the history of efforts to create socially conscious companies. In fact, most companies follow a shifting strategy towards profits -- many...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Muhammand Yunus: Capitalism is Half-Baked
- Muhammand Yunus: Capitalism is Half-BakedI bought 1000 copies of YunusFar from being a dangerous read, I believe Yunus is the best chance humanity has of being sustaible. 24 years ago http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html my father and my future history on the globalisation generation forecast how we'd exponentially destory sustainability unless a Nobel...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Bill Gates and Creative Capitalism--Oh, Give Me A Break!
- Now Bill Gates is running off to Switzerland and giving speeches about how we need a more "creative capitalism" that better addresses the needs of the poor. A softer, gentler form of capitalism, is what he suggested to assembled world leaders at the Davos gabfest. But doesn't...
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Reich to Judt: Get a Brain
- In early December, I posted on Tony Judt's stinging essay on the future of capitalism in the New York Review of Books, which used Robert Reich's Supercapitalism as a jumping-off point (see Tony Judt: Innovation Ain't Always Progress). Reich has responded in the latest issue of NYRB. He calls for...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
- The Idea in Brief ...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- The Political Economy Of Capitalism
- Capitalism is often defined as an economic system where private actors are allowed to own and control the use of property in accord with their own interests, and where the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism coordinates supply and demand in markets in a way that is automatically in the...
- White papers 2006-12-07
- The Evolution Of Industrial Dynamics
- The author begins with a general question, 'What kind of knowledge based economic system is modern capitalism?' In giving an answer he will focus on the claim that capitalism's principal organisational forms, firms and markets, provide jointly a unique instituted connection between the growth of knowledge and the transformation of...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Fear And Social Capitalism: The Law And Macroeconomics Of Investor Confidence
- This article has attempted to show that political influence has stilted adequate financial regulation and that the financial regulatory structure, which does exist, has been unjustifiably skewed towards serving the short term needs of special interests. Additionally, this paper has shown that government spending too has been powerfully skewed towards...
- White papers 2003-02-12
- Direct Preferences for Wealth, the Risk Premium Puzzle, Growth, and Policy Effectiveness
- This paper considers social status, the spirit of capitalism, fiscal policies, and asset pricing in a stochastic model of growth. With specific assumptions on the production technology, preferences, and stochastic shocks, the paper derives the explicit solutions to the growth rates of consumption and savings and equilibrium returns on all...
- White papers 2000-05-05
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- At my desk
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to policies of the...
- Articles 2008-09-22
- Guess who sells your weave?
- Thanks for the article, "Guess Who Sells Your Weave?" (May 2008). The Korean-Americans have become dominant players in many types of small businesses such as dry cleaners, liquor stores, small grocery stores and hair salons, mainly because of their willingness to work hard and put in long hours, using primarily...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- RETHINKING DEPENDENCY THEORY: THE CASE OF DOMINICA, THE RASCAL STATE
- INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, the debate over dependency theory has been eclipsed by the controversy over globalization. Despite the fading dialogue on dependency theory, academics continue to critique it. Ricardo Duchesne notes that "the export of capitalism does not block development in the periphery, but rather stimulates it."'...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Schooling the capital: the uphill struggle for school choice in D.C
- TIFFANY DUNSTON may come from a poverty-line background, but she appears to have a bright future. On May 22, this African-American scholarship student graduated as valedictorian from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. Her class-topping grade-point average of 4.1 earned her a spot at Syracuse University, which she plans...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Southern rock to kick it off
- By Bill Blankenship THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The 2008 Country Stampede gets started today with two-thirds of Charlie Daniels' annual Volunteer Jam tour, an "American Idol" finalist and some Kansans looking for their own fame through karaoke. Gates will open at 3 p.m....
- Articles 2008-06-26
- BEST OF THE REST
- Comedy: Todd Barry (Soho Theatre, London) The bongo-playing star of Flight of the Conchords brings his solo show to the capital for the first time. (020-7478 0100) to Sat Opera: Falstaff Edinburgh Festival Theatre ...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Excavation ages Paris by 3,000 years
- Paris's history as a settlement has been extended by more than 3,000 years. An archaeological dig, the findings of which were revealed yesterday, moves the capital's first known human occupation back to 7600BC, in the Mesolithic period between the two stone ages. An area about the size...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Razak denies murder claims
- World News IN BRIEF *KUALA LUMPUR The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, has dismissed as "total garbage" a blogger's allegation that his wife was involved in the murder of a Mongolian model. Mr Razak said claims about his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were a desperate bid...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Investors' Pounds 4.5bn deal to shore up capital at Barclays
- Barclays has agreed a deal with five sovereign wealth funds that will see the investors pump up to 4.5bn into the bank. Barclays executives have spent much of the past week in talks with the investors hammering out details of the fundraising after the bank came under pressure from regulators...
- Articles 2008-06-26
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