Sentences with phrase «modern capitalism on»

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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.

Oddly, the piece characterizes this movement as an «attack» on «modern profit - driven capitalism.»

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

In this model, the modern epoch is characterized by an abandonment of the three - tiered or dualistic universe of traditional religion, a reliance on scientific and technical reasoning, and increasing intervention by the state to promote advanced industrial capitalism and to combat its ill effects on social life.

But it may be imperative for Indians, who, arriving late in the modern world, are confronted with the possibility that economic growth on the model of Western consumer capitalism is no longer environmentally sustainable.

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.»

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

Following on from his successful This Way Up exhibition in 2017, Midlands - based artist and printmaker Matthew Kel continues his exploration and fascination with the social construct of capitalism and its salient relationship with modern popular and consumer culture.

The artist has also been a «painter of modern life,» plugged to the mundane and reflecting on the pervasive lure of capitalism.

To label her work a non-nuanced denouncement of «capitalism» and «the beauty industry» would be too easy — for us, and for Minter — and would discount the ways the production of beauty — on television screens, in magazines, and in our mirrors — is an integral part of feminine identity in the modern world.

But the highlight is a reprint of filmmaker Patrick Keiller's essay «Popular Science,» a meditation on urbanism where urban disempowerment is not — for once — blamed on modern planners but rather on the unstoppable forces of contemporary capitalism.

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.»

Our policy agenda is a difficult sale to many on the Right given their conviction that global warming is — at best — a wildly overwrought problem and — at worst — a fairy tale told by a corrupted scientific community for those that want to shut - down modern industrial capitalism.

Its reliance on public policy underscores the critical role that auditors play in modern capitalism.