Sentences with phrase «made by capitalism»

The offer of this world competes with other offers made by capitalism, by militarism, by psychology of various kinds, by health clubs, by automobiles, by beers, and so on.

Not exact matches

In fact, the splash he's been making via the Huffington Post, as well as his trip to Toronto, was timed with the release of a documentary produced by his consulting practice, Institute B, that discusses the notion of «conscious capitalism.»

Etsy requires that all new products listed on the site be made by the people selling them — the use of mass production, that wonderful innovation of modern capitalism, is verboten.

In many ways, the negative view of capitalism has made our work more meaningful by working with companies such as these.»

In a video parody of capitalism by Hello Generic, actors poke fun at what makes capitalistic currency so principally ridiculous.

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

Start by reading his annual letters to shareholders and make a note to attend the mother of all annual meetings, the first Saturday in May in the heartland of Capitalism, Omaha, Nebraska.

In this respect I would argue that the difference which capitalism makes has been greatly exaggerated by its proponents.

If, for instance, you try to use capitalism to promote greater equality of wealth by imposing on it a steeply progressive, redistributive system of taxation, you frustrate the way in which it rewards its chief dynamic force, the acquisitive impulse, and you are liable to end by making everyone poorer.

Or if, to take another example, you try to redistribute power within capitalism by balancing managerial authority by trade union privileges, you either choke the entrepreneurial spirit or you eliminate profits — the system's lifeblood — or, as a rule, you do both, and so again you end by making everyone poorer.

By 1937, however, labor had made such gains, «corporation buccaneering» had been so greatly curbed, and the administration had so radically reformed American capitalism that the Century was no longer calling for even an evolutionary revolution; it was already under way.

In The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Novak argues that neither democratic institutions nor markets can by themselves make human beings flourish.

The project of making the world a better place will be carried forward by global capitalism, which has an intrinsic momentum, along with the legal and bureaucratic apparatus of transnational institutions and structures, which have their own logic of expansion and colonization.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

Unmoved by the practical efficiency of capitalism as compared to socialism, Michael focused on the moral contributions a free economy makes to a good society.

Bell feared that the virtues that made capitalism viable — hard work and frugality — would be undercut by the very affluence that it produced.

Indeed, it seems to me that the «theory classes» made possible by the very success of capitalism do more to undermine wholesome culture than the temptations of the economic order itself.

Or, is his discontent not rather with what we now call capitalism, and the habit of measuring values by money, and of making individual or family self - interest rather than brotherly - sisterly love the motive.

Negative freedom alone, according to Hart, made possible the unbridled greed exhibited by late modern capitalism, and led to the «exploitation of material and human resources on an unprecedentedly massive scale.»

There are real problems with capitalism that have to be addressed and assuaged by democratic policy - making.

I appreciated Francesca Aran Murphy's defense of liberalism against the over-the-top rejections by the likes of John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas, and David Bentley Hart, all of whom enjoy the intellectual freedom of liberalism and make rather handsome livings off the largesse of capitalism.

That crowd wasn't really lovin» it, especially when they made a public relations stumble by expecting bands to work for free even though they're practically the symbol of capitalism.

Rosefielde also notes that «while it is fashionable to mitigate the Red Holocaust by observing that capitalism killed millions of colonials in the twentieth century, primarily through man - made famines, no inventory of such felonious negligent homicides comes close to the Red Holocaust total.»

We should therefore care less about definitions, and ask the real question: is representative democracy now so overshadowed by capitalism that it is no longer able to make room for the popular sovereignty upon which it was founded?

The business secretary, Vince Cable, has claimed to be ending «the darker side of capitalism» by announcing he will press ahead with a new public register on company ownership to track the ultimate owners of UK companies, so making it more difficult for firms to evade tax or funnel corrupt funds.

«The job of progressives is not to kill capitalism but to civilise it — by making it work in the public interest.»

The demand, which will be made in a speech to the Commons, comes amid a far - reaching debate on «responsible» capitalism triggered by speeches from Ed Miliband and David Cameron.

It's no idle phrase that FDR made Democracy safe for Capitalism by stilling the anger the «Masses» felt for Government during the Depression.

Above all, if we're to have a responsible capitalism we need to make sure that the opportunity offered by the internet is spread to a large number of small businesses not restricted to a small number of large ones.

Conservatives like Jesse Norman are making efforts to do so by promoting co-operatives and attacking monopolies and «crony capitalism».

Greenberg has objected to statements Spitzer made in television interviews in 2012 and a book, «Protecting Capitalism Case By Case,» in 2013.

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While her job is to make a multinational company more efficient by cutting jobs, Winfried is on a subversive mission to save her from becoming an icy corporate cog in the machine of capitalism.

Adapted by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price («Clockers,» «Sea of Love»), «Child 44» revolves, nearly obsessively, around the defining Catch - 22 of life in the Soviet Communist era: Crimes like murder, we're repeatedly told, are diseases of capitalism and Western decadence, and therefore can not take place in the worker's paradise Stalin has made.

By the mid-1980s, Soviet leaders knew that they had to introduce supply and demand into the economy, but they couldn't bring themselves to try honest - to - God capitalism, so they tried to decentralize decision - making and permit some elements of a market economy while retaining central price controls and government ownership of the means of production.

The actual subject can be as wide - ranging as health insurance, capitalism, networking, and grammar but people constantly make a mockery of these worthwhile subjects by masking them as discussions on self - publishing.

Capitalism at its best is run by idealists who have great ideas about how to make the world a better place by offering more and better choices to individuals.

Start by reading his annual letters to shareholders and make a note to attend the mother of all annual meetings, the first Saturday in May in the heartland of Capitalism, Omaha, Nebraska.

His sculptures themselves take on aspects of capitalism's inequities; they tend to be found or purchased objects, such as desks made by prisoners who are paid slave wages by state governments.

That heyday was short: By the 1960s the city's piers were sidelined, not by the globalization that today has made so many American factory workers redundant but by the streamlining efficiencies of old - fashioned capitalism, the growth of the container traffic that demanded both fewer hands on the docks and more storage spaBy the 1960s the city's piers were sidelined, not by the globalization that today has made so many American factory workers redundant but by the streamlining efficiencies of old - fashioned capitalism, the growth of the container traffic that demanded both fewer hands on the docks and more storage spaby the globalization that today has made so many American factory workers redundant but by the streamlining efficiencies of old - fashioned capitalism, the growth of the container traffic that demanded both fewer hands on the docks and more storage spaby the streamlining efficiencies of old - fashioned capitalism, the growth of the container traffic that demanded both fewer hands on the docks and more storage space

Today's «accumulation by dispossession» (David Harvey), a form of appropriation that involves not primarily the generation of wealth but rather taking possession of existing wealth, usually from the poor or the public sector, makes this slogan a perfect candidate for re-use in the context of global capitalism.

Even the project's nasty underside makes American capitalism look cheesy by comparison.

The «candy period» points to the fact that the confections are made by a Croatian candy company that, through its 150 - year duration, has endured imperialism, fascism, communism / socialism, and capitalism — each of the four candies hail from a particular period.

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..

(By comparison, Burma VJ earned just over $ 50,000, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story made $ 14 million, and The Cove might be nearing $ 1 mil, according to last year's Box Office Mojo figures.)

The rise of widespread air conditioning, made possible by capitalism, is the most obvious explanation.

You believe that because «energy» — by which you mean coal and petroleum fuel only — is so «core» or «central» in its role in an economy that it somehow is an exception to the general principles of Capitalism, and thus any measure taken to make «energy» — by which you always only mean coal and petroleum fuel — is justified.

Instead, large parts of the climate movement wasted precious decades attempting to make the square peg of the climate crisis fit into the round hole of deregulated capitalism, forever touting ways for the problem to be solved by the market itself.

So true... Fear of global warming has been great for academia and the Left from the beginning because it, «makes industry and capitalism look bad while affording endless visuals of animals and third - world humans suffering at the hands of wealthy Westerners,» as Van Dyke noticed, plus: «Best of all, being driven by junk - science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self - sustaining.»

The basic insight behind market capitalism is one shared by brain scientists, computer programmers, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and social change theorists, to wit: a large assemblage of dumb (limited information) actors will make, in the aggregate, better decisions than a small set of smart (high information) actors.