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- A new production of Verdi's Masked Ball has been launched in Erfurt, Germany
- A new production of Verdi's Masked Ball has been launched in Erfurt, Germany. The action takes place on the ruins of the World Trade Center. Old people in Mickey Mouse masks are naked. Other people are dressed as soldiers, or Uncle Sam, or Elvis. The Nazi salute is given. The...
- Research articles 2008-05-05
- 'A Catholic in the room': second thoughts on Hilaire Belloc
- On May 18,1937, Hilaire Belloc completed a series of lectures at Fordham University, published later that year as The Crisis of Civilization. On May 18, 2007, seventy years to the day, if not quite to the minute, I finished reading that book. I had chanced upon it on the shelves...
- Research articles 2007-10-26
- US power and the crisis of social democracy in Europe's second project of integration
- This article draws on the work of Poulantzas to argue that European social democracy is in crisis because European integration since the 1980s has been articulated within a relationship of structural subordination to US-led globalised financial capital, to which European capital has itself increasingly gravitated. This has also been the...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Global capitalism saves the children
- GLOBAL capitalism has long lacked for a ringing slogan like "workers of the world unite." It's never too late to find one, and a good candidate -- with apologies to the international charity of the same name -- might be "save the children." The United Nations Children's...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- European employment models under pressure to change.
- Abstract: "National employment models" comprise the whole range of institutions that determine labour supply, utilization and demand in different countries. Based on a study of existing typologies of these models, this article explores their workings and their capacity to survive pressures for change. It compares different...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Cronenberg opens Spain's San Sebastian film festival
- SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain AFP — Canadian director David Cronenberg's crime thriller "Eastern Promises," set in London's expatriate Russian underworld, opened the 55th annual San Sebastian Film Festival in northern Spain on Thursday. The film is one of 16 competing for the coveted Concha de Oro, or Golden Shell, prize...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Capitalism is bad for men's health: study
- CHICAGO AFP — Communism may be oppressive, but it seems as though capitalism is bad for men's health, according to a recent study which found significant increases in mortality rates after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The life expectancy for men freed from the Iron Curtain dropped by...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- If Mick says it is time to sell, sell!(PRESIDENT'S NOTE)(Viewpoint essay)
- I don't know if you've noticed, but capitalism in a crashing market is not as much fun as capitalism on the way up. It can be hard on manners, mood and general decorum as you watch those Pina Colada's melt away with each new bar graph. ...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- On Samir Amin's contribution to globalization
- ABSTRACT This paper intends to review and analyze Amin's contribution to the globalization process. He analyzes the global capitalist system through its evolution over five centuries and has found that its process of capital accumulation is exploitative and destructive of many Third World countries. The monopoly global capitalist model...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- In praise of entrepreneurs; Joseph Schumpeter.(Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction)(Book review)
- The biography of a man who believed that uproar was the music of capitalism MUCH honoured as an economic prophet, Joseph Schumpeter has had to wait half a century after his death for this splendid full-dress biography covering his ideas, life and times. In...
- Research articles 2007-04-28
- British minister in bother after airlines attack
- LONDON AFP — A junior British government minister has been told to make no further comments, after accusing British, Irish and US airlines of failing to take global warming seriously. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Defra said it was to avoid fuelling the controversy further, after Ian...
- Research articles 2007-01-06
- Pearson accuses airlines of failing to take climate change seriously
- LONDON AFP — Environment minister Ian Pearson has accused British, Irish and US airlines of failing to take global warming seriously, branding Ryanair "the irresponsible face of capitalism." "When it comes to climate change, Ryanair are not just the unacceptable face of capitalism, they are the irresponsible face of capitalism,"...
- Research articles 2007-01-05
- One Last Thing | Why the free market is king
- On the morning of Dec. 21, 1970, Elvis Aaron Presley appeared at the northwest gate of the White House. He delivered a letter - handwritten, on American Airlines stationery - to Richard Nixon, requesting an interview. Elvis was interested in becoming a "federal agent - at large," and besides, he...
- Research articles 2006-10-15
- Professionalism and OD: The Past, the Present, and Future Scenarios
- Abstract This article reviews the history of how occupations become professions. It also reports on the shifting power and alliances between capitalism, government, the professions and consumers. Organization development practitioners are encouraged to consider these concepts in their desire to achieve global professional status for O.D., especially with regard to...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Control of Money, The
- Stable money is one of the most important prerequisites of free markets. In Capitalism and freedom, Milton Friedman addressed the questions of the monetary arrangements most consistent with economic freedom within individual countries and between countries. In Chapter III Friedman took on the issue of how monetary policy should be...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Cuba's new society.(PUBLICATIONS UPDATE)(Bibliografía)
- Baldassarri, Mario, and Sergio Cararo, eds. Cuba: Orgoglio e Pregiudizi. Verona, Italy: Achab, 2005. 254 pp. (Collection of papers, in Italian, on contemporary Cuba.) Barbassa, Juliana. "The New Cuban Capitalist." In: Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century, edited...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- 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
- An institutionalist perspective on the future of the capitalist world-economy
- The term world-economy in our title must have already given a hint to the careful reader of our purpose in writing this paper: We intend to bridge institutional economics with world-systems analysis in order to enhance the global applicability of the former. World-economy is a term used by Fernand Braudel...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- The predator state: Enron, Tyco, WorldCom … and the U.S. government?
- WHAT IS THE REAL NATURE of American capitalism today? Is it a grand national adventure, as politicians and textbooks aver, in which markets provide the framework from which emerges the greatest good for the greatest number? Or is it the domain of class struggle, even a "global class war," as...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
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