Sentences with phrase «in global capitalism»

Is Slavoj Žižek right that it is easier for us to imagine the end of the world than a change in global capitalism?

Critique, in other words, enables us to explain how social differences — gender, race, sexuality, and class — have been systematically produced and continue to operate within regimes of exploitation — namely within the international division of labor in global capitalism, so that we can fight to change them.

The same holds true for our leading role in global capitalism.

Christianity's witness to a self - emptying, vulnerable God confronts the ethics of self - interest and unchecked consumption that prevails in global capitalism.

Not exact matches

So both are paradoxically true: rising inequality is indeed a crisis of Neoliberal Global State Capitalism, and so is the rise of the supposed «solution,» the insatiable plundering State in service to its fiefdoms and private Financial Power Elites (the Plutocracy).

Global Capitalism is trapped in its own Prisoner's Dilemma; forty four years after the end of the Bretton Woods System global central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribGlobal Capitalism is trapped in its own Prisoner's Dilemma; forty four years after the end of the Bretton Woods System global central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribglobal central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribution.

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.

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.

The global turn toward capitalism began not long after, in 1989, and within twenty - five years some two billion people had begun moving from communism and socialism toward capitalism, and thence out of poverty and into steadily advancing standards of living.

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.

They move us, therefore, toward the global capitalism that is now the dominant force in the world.

Defenders of global capitalism argue that in time the impoverishment of the poor will end and the great abundance generated by the system will benefit all.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

In a context like this we as Christians are morally obligated to unconditionally intervene and combat the forces of globalization that create poverty and exclusion whether corporate globalization or finance globalization or global - capitalism undergirds the development of capitalism in the last five hundred yearIn a context like this we as Christians are morally obligated to unconditionally intervene and combat the forces of globalization that create poverty and exclusion whether corporate globalization or finance globalization or global - capitalism undergirds the development of capitalism in the last five hundred yearin the last five hundred years.

The greater freedom of governments would not ensure that the poor in their countries would benefit, but it would make possible the improvement of their condition — a possibility absent in unfettered global capitalism.

William Greider, strongly critical of global capitalism in his book One World Ready or Not, still believed there were remedies available if we were prepared to face up to them boldly.

In 1998 international financier George Soros startled some people with his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism.

So Greider believes that global capitalism, since it not only allows but actually causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, «will probably experience a series of terrible events — wrenching calamities which are economic, or social or environmental in nature — before common sense can prevail».9

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

That global capitalism has not proved a blessing in every quarter of the world?

The danger is that global capitalism will not collapse until much of the biosphere is irreparably damaged, many national governments have lost the power to prevent chaos in their borders, and the struggle for the remaining resources is everywhere violent.

In no way do I minimize the thousands of local efforts to bring some enjoyment to the world even now, in spite of the overwhelming dominance of global capitalisIn no way do I minimize the thousands of local efforts to bring some enjoyment to the world even now, in spite of the overwhelming dominance of global capitalisin spite of the overwhelming dominance of global capitalism.

But setting aside the distortions and inaccuracies in their characterization of my position, I do believe they are correct in judging that very fundamental matters are at stake, and that the perspective I embody and represent is now the greatest threat to their celebration of global corporate capitalism.

One of those conclusions is that in a time when «multinational, corporate capitalism» is «one, if not the, major causal force behind global interdependence,» North American seminary education has given «little theological attention..

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.

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.

Meanwhile the global economy, pushed by global capitalism, with its political center in Washington, D.C., is undercutting the remarkable achievements of Europe and Japan in developing mixed economies that virtually abolished poverty.

Some of the areas to be covered will include economic realities in the global village, capitalism and the distribution of wealth, an examination of the multinational corporation, a case study of neocolonialism, power realities with a developing country, educational realities in the third world, a comparison of values — particularly East Africa and North America.

Others have scolded me for criticizing global capitalism, reminding me that it has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in the last generation.

In truth, rather than some aberration, slavery may be one of the most representative consequences of global capitalism.

Global capitalism's explosive growth has brought unimaginable wealth to some parts of the world, while displacing local economies and emaciating traditional forms of life as transnational corporations devour resources in search of greater and greater profits.

Global capitalism drives tremendous political changes, but it can not usher in an end of politics.

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

Bonds of loyalty allow us to resist tyranny, whether in the form of the utilitarian despotism of global capitalism or the universal moralism that regards our traditions as impediments to the realization of true justice.

While capitalism dictates that to the victor go the spoils, it does seem a shame that an opportunity to create a global dairy giant based in Australia has been lost, with effective control of Warrnambool passing to our much - loved Canadian cousins.

Whilst capitalism dictates that to the victor go the spoils, it does seem a shame that an opportunity to create a global dairy giant based in Australia has been lost, with effective control of Warrnambool passing to our much - loved Canadian cousins.

A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

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.

In 1938 Leon Trotsky declared that capitalism was in its «death agony» and the far left have never lost faith in the imminent collapse of the global economic ordeIn 1938 Leon Trotsky declared that capitalism was in its «death agony» and the far left have never lost faith in the imminent collapse of the global economic ordein its «death agony» and the far left have never lost faith in the imminent collapse of the global economic ordein the imminent collapse of the global economic order.

The global financial and economic crisis of 2008 was the second most devastating in the long history of capitalism.

Communism, philosophically, is what comes after Capitalism if one is going along with Marxs thesis on the law of motion for economies; he gave no time - table, nor no indication of what this future form of the economy would be like - it could be sometime in the middle of this century, or it could be a millenia away; in his thesis, it is almost tautologically true; until then Marx expected Capitalism to succeed as a global force - this was an earlier observation of Hegel that foresaw that «trade» would become «world - historical» in its European form.

Ellis wants Jeremy Corbyn to adopt a full cream ultraleft revolutionary socialist programme, on the ludicrous premise that «global capitalism is now in its final death throws — and no reform or amelioration of the lot of the working class is possible».

«But we need the political establishment in this country to stop slagging off a sector that is utterly crucial to the British economy and the current system of global capitalism — and after four years of navel - gazing since the crash, we have yet to come up with an alternative.»

The one outcome the clever boys who invented new Labour never considered as they excised the socialism from their party was that we would witness a crisis of global capitalism in the first decade of the 21st century so severe that it would force both Britain and America into nationalising financial institutions.

Your new book, Living in the End Times, is about the demise of global capitalism.

At the same time, he has misgivings about the effects of global capitalism and believes in integration, tolerance, and inclusiveness.

Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield explores an out - of - control global economy and the high cost of capitalism in this documentary.

Its essential strength is in its attempt to understand the social murder at Grenfell Tower in terms of the devastation being wrought by global capitalism.