Sentences with phrase «about capitalism in»

In the stock market, the random events are news stories about a company or about capitalism in general, and the resulting prices of securities.

Tomasi tries to deflect worries about capitalism in practice by claiming the high ground of ideal theory: the philosophical choice between free market fairness and its alternatives ultimately rests not on empirical and feasibility concerns, but rather on which vision of justice is most compelling at a moral level.

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There is something kind of gutless about venture capitalism in the digital era.

For whatever personal convictions that drives him to do so (not every CEO writes polemics about free - market capitalism in their spare time time) Mackey has elected himself the firebrand leader to inspire the next generation of leaders that must reverse the public perception of business.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

At this week's Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City, Rauch, who also serves as CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., spoke to attendees about what it takes to make a socially - conscious business profitable.

This is particularly true of Wall Street, since it is de rigeur to attack capitalism nowadays, in this era where we are bombarded with commentary about wealth inequality and income redistribution.

It's much like what he did with his first book in conveying what many may have already instinctively known or felt about capitalism.

If you haven't read Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century, if you haven't read The Zero Marginal Cost Society [Jeremy Rifkin's account of how extreme gains in productivity are disrupting capitalism by rendering many goods and services almost free], you can not even have a conversation with me about what the future is holding.

Corporate profits were weakening, a long U.S. bull market had limped to a near standstill, and the angry populism of the presidential primaries made us wonder whether American capitalism was about to take a pitchfork in the gut.

Now there's no doubt that something has, indeed, gone badly wrong with capitalism in the recent economic cycle, but we hasten to add that stocks are not only a claim on one year or one cycle of cash flows, but are claims on a stream of future deliverable cash flows with an effective duration of about 50 years.

And yet some family - run businesses, and entrepreneurs who were concerned about the place of workers in an economy dominated by gigantic enterprises, sought to extend the benefits of capitalism to employees.

Most of the stuff that this guy brings out; Old capitalism versus new capitalism, Financial intelligence and education and the importance of both, the possible pitfalls of the American social security system and medicare, Taxation system - who it favors and who it hurts the most, all the stuff about residential homes not being assets, the dollar and how it continues to decline in value and the rest all this stuff is absolutely true.

At a time when the political and financial elite gathered at Davos frets about the failures of capitalism and the need for its reform, Professors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu, in a new book titled «A Capitalism of Owners ``, propose an action plan to change fundamentally the way capitalism has comcapitalism and the need for its reform, Professors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu, in a new book titled «A Capitalism of Owners ``, propose an action plan to change fundamentally the way capitalism has comCapitalism of Owners ``, propose an action plan to change fundamentally the way capitalism has comcapitalism has come to work.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

Conservatives were still likely to read quite a few jeremiads, and social - conservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the rational stance.

The news also did a story awhile ago about defectors from America, now living in North Korea, who claimed to escape capitalism.

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

This article is about the moral cowardice of the Christain clergy, who are willing to preach sermons about the holiness of Capitalism (which is NOT in the Bible) but who will not mention helping the poor (which is all over the Bible).

Here, for example, Novak reformulates his arguments about the necessary relationship between democracy and capitalism (and vice versa), as well as his location of the cause of the wealth of nations in the creative, inventive, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human mind.

The author's view of capitalism and its effects, all in all, is about as nuanced as the village atheist's view of Christianity.

The nearer capitalism comes to triumphing totally more questions are raised about its capacity to be magnanimous in victory, to heed the cries of the poor at home and aboard to seek the path of peace and to care tenderly for the earth».

Say what you will about laissez - faire capitalism — and it certainly never lived up to its advance billing — this was a moral transformation that was breathtaking in scope.

There's no application of Catholic social doctrine to help us think in a disciplined way about how to respond to environmental threats, or how to reform global capitalism.

When I wrote The Capitalist Revolution five years ago, the word revolution was, of course, intended to denote the fundamental changes, the radical transformation, that capitalism brings about in a society.

And in fact, we can learn a lesson from its defeat in terms of the strength of capitalism as a global system, which used all political and military means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of socialism.

«Atlas Shrugged» is about socialism devouring capitalism in a very short period of time.

Max Weber was wrong about many things, and he may even have been wrong about the strategic place he gave to the «Protestant ethic» in the development of modern capitalism.

It must be emphasized that such a reassessment would properly be a far cry from the triumphalism about democratic capitalism that (understandably perhaps) found favor in right - of - center circles in the last few years: we must be careful not to substitute a right - leaning utopianism for the left - leaning one of the past.

While Chesterton's famous summary of distributism — «The problem with capitalism is not that there are too many capitalists but too few» — says nothing about the kind of capital we should care about, in his work it is bound up with all sorts of extraneous reactionary material.

Although Grant initially expressed concern about the homogenizing influences of liberalism and capitalism on his country's distinctive traditions, in his last decades he became increasingly worried about the easy acceptance of euthanasia and abortion in western societies and the inevitable cheapening of human life that would follow in its wake.

The grim reality is that Corporate America is very much not concerned with giving; in fact the very practice goes against just about everything capitalism stands for.

its split between Isreal Egypt and Jordon in arms $ $ cash transfers that go from US tax coffers thru these countries back to «private» US arms contractors... so its worse than $ $ cash transfer many complain about for the poor and its hardly capitalism and it spreads arms weapons abusing capitalism through false incentives to prop up dictators like mubarak, abusive otherwise weak likud government, and essentially provides them incentive to have lobbyist in DC too from these 3 countries to keep it up..

In concert with his warnings about environmental degradation, he criticizes global finance, capitalism, and inequality.

I do agree (with the comment above) about Capitalism working itself out... this is a new - ish industry (in its current form), and there are definitely kinks to be worked out.

As Keynes foresaw in the 1920s, the debate about progressive capitalism concerns the «agenda» and «non-agenda» of government.

When we were last in Liverpool in 2011, Ed Miliband delivered his infamous «predator producer» speech which I helped write which was all about responsible capitalism.

I have been hearing a lot in the recent years about democracy and capitalism.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

But then there are the accelerationists - political pyromaniacs whose agenda is chaos from which they may profit, a kind of «disaster socialism» to mirror the disaster capitalism Naomi Klein wrote about in The Shock Doctrine.

In the US, Bernie Sanders» rhetoric about the raw deal ordinary workers get from big business, and his appeals for a responsible capitalism, chimes with Labour's approach.

Thomas Piketty has become, if such a thing exists, an economics celebrity with a book that has fundamentally challenged some of the underlying assumptions about the efficiency of capitalism in delivering benefits for all.

And in a thinly - veiled but damning swipe at Mr Corbyn, he said Labour should reject the «misty - eyed romanticism about a revolution to overthrow capitalism and a socialist nirvana».

Ed M described socialism as being a critique of capitalism in the opening week hustings, while making it clear that was about a social democratic intervention http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/18/new-labour-is-dead-what-counts-now-is-next-labour-115875-22266479/

Akshar talks about not only continuing the crony capitalism in NY State but doubling down on it in the Southern Tier.

Syriza, on the other hand, has its roots in more traditional radical left politics, but in the past four years it has ditched doctrinal debates about the evils of capitalism and embraced Keynesian solutions to deal with Greece's debt and social crisis.

Second, Ed spoke in his Liverpool Conference Speech in 2011 about «responsible capitalism».

But what does their background in «disaster capitalism» tell us about Legatum's Brexit agenda?

I suggest that labour - uncut, goes off, thinks up a few sensible policies, that are relevant to a government of 2020, maybe has a few ideas on the EU referendum, and accepts that the Corbyn fans of Students who read a article about how, capitalism is bad, because there was enough money for everyone in the 80's, and the Tories only got in because people who voted for them were dumb and read the Daily mail, because you're not going to convince anyone that labour Will be destroyed in 2020 ′ because the Tories may implode over infighting like they did with Westland or ousting Thatcher, but win in 87 ′ and 92 ′ anyway