Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making
global capitalism more stable.
Not exact matches
They're part of an American - style
capitalism that continues to make the
global community a freer, safer,
more open and developing planet every minute.
It is nothing
more than crony
capitalism and collusion between
global elites.
The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage
global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the -
more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.
He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with
global «dependent
capitalism» and move toward
more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «
more politically effective at a national level.»
If China is tied
more and
more fully into the
global system, it will be drawn into the current patterns of financial
capitalism.
This redirection would require
more participation by civil society as well as by government than
global corporate
capitalism now allows.
The
more thoroughly
global capitalism triumphs, the
more intense identity politics becomes.
This new production of Gregory Burke's debut drama examines a world where
global capitalism is in recovery and explores questions
more relevant than ever.
Sassen posits the notion of expulsions as an analytical device that «takes us beyond the
more familiar idea of growing inequality as a way of capturing the pathologies of today's
global capitalism» (3).
Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including «The Shock Doctrine,» recently took on
global warming policy and campaigns in «
Capitalism vs. the Climate,» a much - discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here
more than once in the last few weeks.
Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern
capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the
more affluent societies, modern
capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of
global anti-
capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's
capitalism.»
A CO2 tax trumps them all... reducing our trade deficit, making our economy
more efficient, ameliorating
global warming, and showing the world that American
capitalism has not lost its edge.
More about environmental economics: Focus on Focus Earth: The Green New Deal Get Ready for a Green Jobs Explosion, New Study Says Needed: Copernican Shift Toward A
Global Eco-Economy Why We Need to Reset
Capitalism to Put the Environment at the Center Book Review: The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones Green Jobs Can Bail Out the Environment, Rebuild Communities: Worldwatch Institute
More on 1 % for the Planet, Conscious Consumerism, and Yvon Chouinard Hot Hot Santa Strips for
Global Warming and 1 % for the Planet Video: Conscious
Capitalism - Resolving the Conflict Between
Capitalism and Innovation The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One) Yvon Chouinard Wins Environmental Good Guy Award Doing Well by Doing Good: Why Patagonia Makes a Profit, Naturally
Who among hot climatists will want to commit to writing a desire to collaborate in figuring out a way to discredit the
more accurate satellite data that shows no
global warming going on 2 decades in preference to greater reliance on the use of massaged land - based temperature records that support the
global warming alarmists» meme that free enterprise
capitalism is destroying the Earth?
One thing I would add — it ought to be obvious (and I certainly hope it is) that a process of «winding back and decelerating the present form of
capitalism», including «
more social democracy,
more regulation», will only be effective at mitigating the effect of
global warming (partially or wholly), if it includes a large suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing
global warming, that is, replacing emissions - producing activities or processes (particularly energy sources) with non emissions - producing ones.