Is it a requirement to be a Republican who believes
in free market capitalism and limited government to have to be a Christian?
Not exact matches
Richard Nixon tried unsuccessfully to pass a form of basic income during his presidency, and economist and
free market proponent Milton Friedman advocated the idea
in his 1962 book «
Capitalism and Freedom.»
«We have to recover the public sector, we have to scare the
free market out of our pensions, education, health care, and culture, and let the cooperative social sector come
in and combat the casino economy of
capitalism and financial speculation.»
Employers are the convenient villain
in this narrative, where
capitalism and
free markets only benefit the chosen few, at the expense of the suffering masses.
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.
What's more,
in this type of authoritarian
capitalism, government intervention
in business is utilized,
in a way not possible
in a
free -
market democracy, to strengthen the power of the ruling regime and China's position internationally.
And today, I am a fiscal conservative who believes strongly
in free -
market capitalism and small government.
What happens
in a command economy such as China's is that the element of
free social conflict that
market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.
With a Ph.D.
in economics and a focus on the principles of
free -
market capitalism and «Austrian» economics, Mark Skousen has often gone contrary to the crowd
in his investment choices and economic predictions — and has often been proved right.
It is ironic that the idea for Uber was conceived
in Paris, France, where
free markets and
capitalism are under tremendous pressure.
This kind of classical
free market viewed
capitalism's historical role as being to
free the economy from the overhead of unproductive «usury» debt, along with the problem of absentee landownership and private ownership of monopolies — what Lenin called the economy's «commanding heights»
in the form of basic infrastructure.
As I believe strongly
in the words of Larry Kudlow... «that
free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity.»
We think allocating capital online slots
in this manner perpetuates overvaluation, erodes competition and impoverishes
free market capitalism.
How
Capitalism Will Save Us: Why
Free People and
Free Markets Are the Best Answer
in Today's Economy
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).
I'd rather see
capitalism curbed early then see the massive amount of decline
in quality of life, health, and prosperity for the overwhelming majority of the population necessary to balance the scales via the
free market.
That is not
free -
market capitalism as capitalists do not forgive debt and, as evidenced by the Reaganomic fallout we are living
in today, they like to hoard wealth and assets
in order to wield more power and control.
In the recent past the major proposal for such change was to shift from
capitalism to socialism, from the
free market to bureaucratic control.
In this instance it may not be the case that the acceptance of the
free market as the means of pricing goods and services entails all the other features of global
capitalism.
The former calls into service two time - tested claims of
capitalism's defenders: (1) that the
free market yields greater efficiency and productivity than socialist economies, and (2) that it results
in greater freedom.
The progress and reform advocated by the Whigs was
in the direction of the
free market and
capitalism.
In the midns of many who support
free -
market capitalism, that is tantamount to communism.
As the Pope said
in the encyclical, he prefers «
market economy» or «
free economy» to «
capitalism.»
There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism»
in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and
marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism»,
in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as
free enterprise
capitalism.
In his Encyclical Letter: «Centesimus Annus» of 1st May 1991, he deals ex professor on the free market and on capitalism as it was seen in 1990, within an year of the fall of the Soviet Unio
In his Encyclical Letter: «Centesimus Annus» of 1st May 1991, he deals ex professor on the
free market and on
capitalism as it was seen
in 1990, within an year of the fall of the Soviet Unio
in 1990, within an year of the fall of the Soviet Union.
In his social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of free - market capitalis
In his social encyclical, Caritas
in Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of free - market capitalis
in Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of
free -
market capitalism.
Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that
capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the
market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as
free human creativity
in the economic sector.
Toni Solo of Scoop Independent News has commented: «One of the defining characteristics of contemporary Nicaraguan society is a widespread turning to religion or spirituality for affirmation
in the face of the ruthless application of savage «
free market»
capitalism.
Their book is a delight to read for many reasons, not the least of which is their employment of a wonderful array of
in - your - face metaphors taken from the world of
free -
market capitalism and their serious questioning of such accepted authorities as Sidney Ahlstrom, Martin Marty, and Winthrop Hudson.
The real answer here is if we can indeed take the «good side» of each economic system (
free market capitalism in one side and government run socialism on the other) and if the resulting arrangement can be archived and mantained.
There is a sense
in which the two economic systems [
free market capitalism versus state - driven
capitalism] are ideological opponents; there is discussion of whether the authoritarian economic model is better able than the United States» to deliver positive outcomes.
Namely, that unregulated
markets always overshoot (more so
in the computerised age than ever before), and that while regulated
capitalism is the best system, a
free - for - all always leads to anarchy and disaster - and has!
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.
A source close to Mr Cable said he believed
in «
free -
market capitalism», but added: «There is a general problem at the heart of
capitalism.»
It was the transfer of Nigeria's wealth through the patronage system to Obasanjo's allies
in a move that typified the highest character of the «
free market» — crony
capitalism, as distinct from «state
capitalism.»
Soon after he was elected
in 2010, Ed Miliband sought to distinguish himself from New Labour, which many
in the party felt had become too close to business and too accepting of
free market capitalism.
But our
free -
market capitalism can not work without growth, so we can not share out either the work or the wealth
in a sane way, and we have more than three million without work, beggars on the streets, even a falling expectation of life among the worse - off.
In Darwin's day, the prevailing ethos of so - called
free -
market capitalism treated the planet as a limitless resource, and its atmosphere and oceans as an equally limitless repository for waste.
America's large population, wealth of natural resources, entrepreneurial spirit, and rich legacy of inventions and innovation — from the telegraph to the lightbulb to the personal computer — made the United States the most prosperous nation
in history through industry and
free market capitalism.
You can expect to see lessons
in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of
free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak
in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.
The right - wing,
free market vision of University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman informed the blueprint for the rapid privatization of municipal services throughout the world due
in no small part to what author Naomi Klein calls «Disaster
Capitalism.»
The 21st Century Student's Guide to Financial Literacy — Going Global curriculum offers both instructor and student workbooks with 17 easy - to - teach lessons
in such important concepts as the evolution of money, the rise of
capitalism, currency and foreign exchange, venture capital, startups, intellectual property, entrepreneurship and innovation, securities and stock
markets, wealth disparity, and global
free trade agreements.
We think allocating capital
in this manner perpetuates overvaluation, erodes competition and impoverishes
free market capitalism.
All that was mostly out of a genuine interest
in economics and financial
markets and my strong belief
in free -
market capitalism.
These questions revolve around the destructive impact of globalized «
free»
market capitalism — on public life,
in the developing world, on the environment, on our sense of ourselves — particularly
in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Bush administration.
A big distinction was
in their concepts of prosperity and politics, since Eastern bloc continued implementing revolutionary propaganda forming communist regimes
in Eastern Europe and Asia, the Western bloc reached the state of developed
capitalism, insisting on
free market, commercial design, popular print and advertising.
Out of this electroacoustic cloud, a woman's voice announces: «I am an emissary from the future...» The time travelling character from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bathhouse (1930) invites those left behind by failed state
capitalism and the neglect of
free markets to join her
in the commune of the future.
I think it explains, indirectly at least, why
capitalism and
market driven systems need not be destroyed (as some here have maintained) because they are insufficient it some areas, but rather should be supplemented
in those areas that
capitalism or
free private enterprise (a major part of individual freedoms) is not designed for or hasn't the wherewithal to handle (ala tragedy of the commons) by appropriate government intervention, rule making, or regulation..
The purpose of
capitalism and
free markets is precisely to keep you people where you belong -
in mom and dad's basement playing video games and cursing the culture who have rightfully discarded your grade school brain flatulence.
The Koch's are so ruthless
in their pursuit of power that even Cato, a bastion of «every man for themselves,» «only the strong survive,» «no
free school lunch,»
free -
market capitalism, is crying foul.